Three-dimensional architecture of the left ventricular myocardium

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 565-578

  Lunkenheimer, Paul P ^a,e   Redmann, Klaus ^a   Kling, Natalie ^a   Jiang, Xiaoji ^a   Rothaus, Kai ^a   Cryer, Colin W ^a   Wübbeling, Frank ^a   Niederer, Peter ^b   Heitz, Philipp U ^b   Ho, Siew Yen ^c   Anderson, Robert H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antagonistic control of mural thickening; Circular knives; Intruding contractile pathways; Myocardial spatial mesh

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PARAFFIN; PERICARDIUM; STAINING AND LABELING; SWINE;

EID: 33744927648     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20326     Document Type: Article

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