Correlation of α-skeletal actin expression, ventricular fibrosis and heart function with the degree of pressure overload cardiac hypertrophy in rats

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 571-580

  Stilli, Donatella ^a   Bocchi, Leonardo ^a   Berni, Roberta ^a   Zaniboni, Massimiliano ^a   Cacciani, Francesca ^a   Chaponnier, Christine ^b   Musso, Ezio ^a   Gabbiani, Giulio ^b   Clément, Sophie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 33646112927     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2005.032607     Document Type: Article

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