Cardiac micro-computed tomography for morphological and functional phenotyping of muscle LIM protein null mice

Molecular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 261-268

  Badea, Cristian T ^a,b   Hedlund, Laurence W ^a   Boslego Mackel, Julie F ^a   Mao, Lan ^a   Rockman, Howard A ^a   Allan Johnson, G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PROTEINS;

ANESTHESIA; CONTRAST AGENT; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DATA; INTRAVENOUS INJECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

MUSCLE LIM PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCARDIUM; PHENOTYPE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34848869954     PISSN: 15353508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7290.2007.00022     Document Type: Article

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