Cardiac characterization of mdx mice using high-resolution doppler echocardiography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 757-761

  Fayssoil, Abdallah ^a   Renault, Gilles ^b   Guerchet, Nicolas ^c   Marchiol Fournigault, Carmen ^b   Fougerousse, Françoise ^c   Richard, Isabelle ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Mdx mice

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION;

DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; EJECTION FRACTION; MDX MICE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES;

MAMMALS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84878025888     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.32.5.757     Document Type: Article

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