Morphometry of human myocardium in senile individuals;Morfometria do miocárdio humano em indivíduos senis

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 374-377

  Cardoso, José Antonio ^a   Toscano, Ana Elisa ^a,b   Tashiro, Tetsuo ^a   Ferraz De Carvalho, Cláudio Antonio ^a   Arruda De Moraes, Sílvia Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aging; Cardiac; Myocardium cytolog; Myocytes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33744951233     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2006000500008     Document Type: Article

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