Electron microscopy and microcalorimetry of the postnatal rat heart (Rattus norvegicus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 310-318

  Muhlfeld C ^a   Singer, D ^b   Engelhardt, N ^a   Richter, J ^a   Schmiedl, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Heart; Microcalorimetry; Morphometry; Myocardium; Postnatal development; Rat; Size allometry

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIMETRY; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART WORK; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; MICROCALORIMETRY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; TISSUE METABOLISM; TISSUE SLICE;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 23044460009     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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