Ischemia and apoptosis in an animal model of permanent infarct-related artery occlusion

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-111

  Abbate, Antonio ^a   Morales, Celina ^b   De Falco, Maria ^c   Fedele, Valentina ^c   Biondi Zoccai, Giuseppe G L ^d   Santini, Daniele ^e   Palleiro, Jimena ^b   Vasaturo, Fortunata ^f   Scarpa, Susanna ^f   Liuzzo, Giovanna ^g   Severino, Anna ^g   Baldi, Feliciano ^h   Crea, Filippo ^g   Biasucci, Luigi M ^g   Vetrovec, George W ^a   Gelpi, Ricardo J ^b   Baldi, Alfonso ^h  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^h SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal model; Apoptosis; Electron microscopy; Ischemia; Remodelling

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548080382     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.08.077     Document Type: Article

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