Hearts of Dystonia musculorum mice display normal morphological and histological features but show signs of cardiac stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Boyer, Justin G ^a,b,c   Bhanot, Kunal ^b,c   Kothary, Rashmi ^b,c   Boudreau Larivière, Céline ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID ANTIGEN 1; DESMIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN BETA; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE 2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ATP2A2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DST PROTEIN, MOUSE; ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE DYSTONIA; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART STRESS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VOLUME; HEART WEIGHT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MOUSE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYMPTOM; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HEART CONTRACTION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TORSION DYSTONIA;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMIN; DYSTONIA MUSCULORUM DEFORMANS; HEART; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICE; MICROTUBULES; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES;

EID: 77949735131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009465     Document Type: Article

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