Deficiency of testosterone associates with the substrate of atrial fibrillation in the rat model

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1055-1060

  Tsuneda, Takayuki ^a,b   Yamashita, Takeshi ^b   Kato, Takeshi ^b   Sekiguchi, Akiko ^b   Sagara, Kouichi ^b   Sawada, Hitoshi ^b   Aizawa, Tadanori ^b   Fu, Long Tai ^b   Fujiki, Akira ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b THE CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial Fibrillation; Calcium Handling; Gender Difference; Ryanodine Receptor; Sodium Calcium Exchanger; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLAMBAN; RYANODINE RECEPTOR 2; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 69249173067     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2009.01474.x     Document Type: Article

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