Effects of aged garlic extract on left ventricular diastolic function and fibrosis in a rat hypertension model

Experimental Animals

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 305-310

  Hara, Yuki ^a   Noda, Akiko ^b   Miyata, Seiko ^b   Minoshima, Makoto ^a   Sugiura, Mari ^a   Kojima, Jun ^a   Otake, Masafumi ^a   Furukawa, Mayuko ^a   Cheng, Xian Wu ^a   Nagata, Kohzo ^a   Murohara, Toyoaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged garlic extract; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Left ventricular function; Left ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GARLIC EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CARDIOMEGALY; DIASTOLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FIBROSIS; GARLIC; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED DAHL; RISK; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84886809185     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.62.305     Document Type: Article

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