Noninvasive assessment of cardiac abnormalities in experimental autoimmune myocarditis by magnetic resonance microscopy imaging in the mouse

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 88, 2014, Pages

  Massilamany, Chandirasegaran ^a   Khalilzad Sharghi, Vahid ^a   Gangaplara, Arunakumar ^a   Steffen, David ^a   Othman, Shadi F ^a   Reddy, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune myocarditis; Cardiac myosin heavy chain; Heart; Issue 88; Magnetic resonance microscopy; Medicine; Mouse; MRI; MRM; Noninvasive tool

Indexed keywords

A J MOUSE; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEART; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 84906341421     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51654     Document Type: Article

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