Gender differences in electrical remodeling and susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias in rabbits with left ventricular hypertrophy

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 832-839

  Biagetti, Marcelo O ^a   Quinteiro, Ricardo A ^a  

^a FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Arrhythmia induction; Cardiac hypertrophy; Gender

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RENAL ARTERY; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNINEPHRECTOMY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; RABBITS; SEX FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 33745510065     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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