Speckle tracking analysis of the left ventricular anterior wall shows significantly decreased relative radial strain patterns in dystrophin deficient mice after 9 months of age

PLoS Currents

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Spurney, Christopher ^a   Yu, Qing ^b   Nagaraju, Kannaboyina ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; ISOFLURANE; COLLAGEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEART RATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPECKLE TRACKING ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART SIZE; MUSCLE STRAIN; SPECKLE TRACKING IMAGING;

EID: 84867475386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21573999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/currents.RRN1273     Document Type: Article

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