Cardiac-specific overexpression of metallothionein rescues nicotine-induced cardiac contractile dysfunction and interstitial fibrosis

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-14

  Hu, Nan ^a,b   Guo, Rui ^b   Han, Xuefeng ^b,c   Zhu, Baocheng ^a   Ren, Jun ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Cardiomyocyte; Myocardium; Oxidative stress; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CASPASE 3; EOSIN; FIBULIN 5; HEMATOXYLIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; NICOTINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FLUORESCENCE; FRIEND LEUKEMIA VIRUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; FIBROSIS; HEART; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SMOKING;

FRIEND MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MUS;

EID: 79952042333     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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