Dominant arrhythmia vulnerability of the right ventricle in senescent mice

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 438-448

  Stein, Mera ^a   Noorman, Maartje ^a   van Veen, Toon A B ^a   Herold, Eva ^a   Engelen, Markus A ^a,b   Boulaksil, Mohamed ^a,c   Antoons, Gudrun ^a   Jansen, John A ^a   van Oosterhout, Matthijs F M ^a   Hauer, Richard N W ^a   de Bakker, Jacques M T ^a,c,d   van Rijen, Harold V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collagen; Conduction; Gap junction; Mapping; Tachyarrhythmia

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENESCENCE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LINEAR MODELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 39649118628     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.10.033     Document Type: Article

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