Apoptotic myocardial cell death in the setting of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 465-470

  Yamaji, Kunihiro ^a,b   Fujimoto, Shinichi ^b   Ikeda, Yoshihiko ^c   Masuda, Kazuyoshi ^c   Nakamura, Shinobu ^b   Saito, Yoshihiko ^a   Yutani, Chikao ^d  

^a First Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Arrhythmia; Cardiomyopathy; Pathology

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NICK END LABELING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL DEATH; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 26444439025     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.60.5.2004965     Document Type: Article

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