Use of afterload hemodynamic stress as a practical method for assessing cardiac performance in rats with heart failure

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 724-732

  dos Santos, Leonardo ^a,b   Antonio, Ednei L ^a   Souza, Ana F M ^a   Tucci, Paulo J F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Rua Fagundes Dias   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Afterload mismatch; Cardiac function; Hemodynamic changes; Phenylephrine; Pressure overload; Rat; Ventricular pressure

Indexed keywords

PHENYLEPHRINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ANIMAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHENYLEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 77957818874     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: 12057541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Y10-062     Document Type: Article

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