Catecholamines and estrogen are involved in the pathogenesis of emotional stress-induced acute heart attack

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 479-485

  Ueyama, Takashi ^a   Kasamatsu, Ken ^a   Hano, Takuzo ^a   Tsuruo, Yoshihiro ^a   Ishikura, Fuminobu ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Fos; Emotional stress; Estrogen receptors; Heat shock protein; Natriuretic peptide; Sympathetic nervous system; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; Viral transneuronal labeling

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CATECHOLAMINE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TARGET ORGAN;

RATTUS;

EID: 57649219428     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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