Mouse heart valve structure and function: Echocardiographic and morphometric analyses from the fetus through the aged adult

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Hinton Jr , Robert B ^a   Alfieri, Christina M ^a   Witt, Sandra A ^a   Glascock, Betty J ^a   Khoury, Philip R ^a   Benson, D Woodrow ^a   Yutzey, Katherine E ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Echocardiography; Reference standard

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; C57BL MOUSE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART VALVE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; ORGAN SIZE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REFERENCE VALUE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART VALVES; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 49249138131     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.91431.2007     Document Type: Article

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