Changes in gene expression of phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase in the transplanted human heart

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1018, Issue , 2004, Pages 430-436

  Goncalvesova, Eva ^a   Micutkova, Lucia ^b   Mravec, Boris ^b   Ksinantova, Lucia ^b   Krizanova, Olga ^b,c   Fabian, Juraj ^a   Kvetnansky, Richard ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Human heart; PNMT gene expression; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATALYSIS; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CHRONOTROPISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOTROPISM; MALE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLE;

EID: 3242732061     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1296.053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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