Is our heart a well-designed pump? the heart along animal evolution

European Heart Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 34, 2014, Pages 2322-2332

  Bettex, Dominique A ^a   Prêtre, René ^b   Chassot, Pierre Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal evolution; Haemodynamics; Heart anatomy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EVOLUTION; ARTHROPOD; BIRD; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FISH; GRAVITY; HEART; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; REPTILE; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; FISHES; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; INVERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; MOLLUSCA; REPTILES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84907996432     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu222     Document Type: Review

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