Swimming training attenuates remodeling, contractile dysfunction and congestive heart failure in rats with moderate and large myocardial infarctions

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 394-399

  Andrews Portes, Leslie ^a,b   Magalhães Saraiva, Roberto ^b   Alberta Dos Santos, Alexandra ^b   Tucci, Paulo J F ^b,c  

^a São Paulo Adventist University   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Contractile dysfunction; Heart failure; Myocardial infarction; Swimming training

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE TENSION; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART WEIGHT; LUNG CONGESTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BODY WATER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; LIVER; LUNG; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STROKE VOLUME; SWIMMING; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 68849120600     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2008.05070.x     Document Type: Article

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