Myocardial Morphological Characteristics and Proarrhythmic Substrate in the Rat Model of Heart Failure Due to Chronic Volume Overload

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 102-111

  Benes, Jiri ^a,b   Melenovsky, Vojtech ^c   Skaroupkova, Petra ^c   Pospisilova, Jana ^a   Petrak, Jiri ^a   Cervenka, Ludek ^c   Sedmera, David ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cardiac hypertrophy; Connexin43; Heart failure; Rat

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PROARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART VOLUME; HEART WEIGHT; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; CARDIOMEGALY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART FAILURE; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STROKE VOLUME;

FISTULA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 78650079854     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21280     Document Type: Article

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