Atrial Arrhythmia in Ageing Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats: Unraveling the Substrate in Hypertension and Ageing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lau, Dennis H ^a   Shipp, Nicholas J ^a   Kelly, Darren J ^b   Thanigaimani, Shivshankar ^a   Neo, Melissa ^a   Kuklik, Pawel ^a   Lim, Han S ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^b   Drury, Karen ^a   Wong, Christopher X ^a   Chia, Nicholas H ^a   Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Dimitri, Hany ^a   Saint, David A ^a   Brown, Lindsay ^c   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL REMODELING; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84883177220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072416     Document Type: Article

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