Mechanisms of alcoholic heart disease

Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 497-506

  Ren, Jun ^a   Wold, Loren E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetaldehyde; Alcoholic cardiomyopathy; Ethanol; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CALCIUM; FATTY ACID ESTER; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ALCOHOLIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE MODEL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPID STORAGE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, ALCOHOLIC; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 65349101366     PISSN: 17539447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753944708095137     Document Type: Review

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