Therapy With Cardiac Contractility Modulation Electrical Signals Improves Left Ventricular Function and Remodeling in Dogs With Chronic Heart Failure

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 2120-2128

  Imai, Makoto ^a   Rastogi, Sharad ^a   Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Mishra, Sudhish ^a   Sharov, Victor G ^a   Stanley, William C ^b   Mika, Yuval ^c   Rousso, Benny ^c   Burkhoff, Daniel ^c   Ben Haim, Shlomo ^c   Sabbah, Hani N ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c IMPULSE Dynamics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; METOPROLOL SUCCINATE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GENE FUNCTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MICROEMBOLISM; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; METOPROLOL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 34248645944     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.10.082     Document Type: Article

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