Age- and gender-related changes in ventricular performance in wild-type FVB/N mice as evaluated by conventional and vector velocity echocardiography imaging: A retrospective study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2034-2043

  Koch, Sheryl E ^a   Haworth, Kevin J ^a,b   Robbins, Nathan ^a   Smith, Margaret A ^a   Lather, Navneet ^a   Anjak, Ahmad ^a   Jiang, Min ^a   Varma, Priyanka ^a   Jones, W Keith ^a   Rubinstein, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Echocardiography; Gender; Myocardial function; Strain imaging

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CARDIAC FUNCTIONS; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; DIASTOLIC FUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IMAGING; GENDER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MYOCARDIAL FUNCTION; STRAIN IMAGING;

MAMMALS;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FVB/N MOUSE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENDER; MYOCARDIAL FUNCTION; STRAIN IMAGING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84884533201     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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