Adaptation of the heart to hypertension is associated with maladaptive gap junction connexin-43 remodeling

Physiological Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-11

  Fialova M ^a   Dlugosova K ^a   Okruhlicova L ^a   Kristek, F ^a   Manoach, M ^b   Tribulova N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Connexin 43; Gap junction remodeling; Hypertension; Malignant arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; POTASSIUM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART VENTRICLES; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 45349088699     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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