The role of endothelin-1 in myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy: Old lessons and new insights

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-62

  Yang, Li L ^a,b   Arab, Sara ^a,b   Liu, Peter ^a,b   Stewart, Duncan J ^a,c   Husain, Mansoor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Endothelin 1; Gene expression profiling; Inflammation; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIN 1; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ENDOTHELIN-1; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 19944403243     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/y05-002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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