Layer-specific strain analysis by speckle tracking echocardiography reveals differences in left ventricular function between rats and humans

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Bachner Hinenzon, Noa ^a   Ertracht, Offir ^a   Leitman, Marina ^b,c   Vered, Zvi ^b,c   Shimoni, Sara ^d   Beeri, Ronen ^e   Binah, Ofer ^a   Adam, Dan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contractility; Speckle training; Strain imaging

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEDATION; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956668330     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00017.2010     Document Type: Article

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