Echocardiographic assessment of global left ventricular function in mice

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-137

  Stypmann, Jörg ^a,b,c   Engelen, Markus A ^a,d   Troatz, Clemens ^c,e   Rothenburger, Markus ^a   Eckardt, Lars ^a   Tiemann, Klaus ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Project C3   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Doppler; Echocardiography; Left ventricular function; Left ventricular mass; Mouse; Myocardial performance index; Strain rate; Tissue doppler imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; AORTA FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTRAST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFORMANCE INDEX; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART VENTRICLES; MICE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 63849269691     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2007.06001e     Document Type: Review

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