Dexamethasone treatment of post-MI rats attenuates sympathetic innervation of the infarct region

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 150-156

  El Helou, Viviane ^a,b   Proulx, Cindy ^a,b   Gosselin, Hugues ^b   Clement, Robert ^b   Mimee, Andrea ^b   Villeneuve, Louis ^b   Calderone, Angelino ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Myocardial infarction; Myofibroblasts; Nerve growth factor; Neural remodeling

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HEART INFARCTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HEART; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 38349027049     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00663.2007     Document Type: Article

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