The clinical significance of the atrial subendocardial smooth muscle layer and cardiac myofibroblasts in human atrial tissue with valvular atrial fibrillation

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 58-64

  Park, Jae Hyung ^a   Pak, Hui Nam ^a   Lee, Sak ^a   Park, Han Ki ^a   Seo, Jeong Wook ^b   Chang, Byung Chul ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Myofibroblast; Subendocardial smooth muscle layer

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CONNEXIN 43; GLYCOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SUBENDOCARDIAL SMOOTH MUSCLE LAYER; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COLLAGEN; CONNEXIN 43; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GLYCOGEN; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOFIBROBLASTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAINING AND LABELING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870868025     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: 18791336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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