Reversal of myocyte hypertrophy by ventricular unloading: Cardiac improvement without adrenergic receptor upregulation and relocalization

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Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Schnee, Pippa M ^a   Shah, Naeema ^b   Bergheim, Marianne ^a,b   Poindexter, Brian J ^a   Buja, L Max ^a,b   Myers, Timothy J ^b   Radovancevic, Branislav ^a,b   Frazier, O Howard ^b   Bick, Roger J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CALCIUM; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ORGAN DONOR; PREDICTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; PATHOLOGY; REMISSION; UPREGULATION;

HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE CELLS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; UP-REGULATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33646764161     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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