Passive ventricular remodeling in cardiac disease: Focus on heterogeneity

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5, Issue Nov, 2014, Pages

  Kessler, Elise L ^a   Boulaksil, Mohamed ^a,b   Van Rijen, Harold V M ^a   Vos, Marc A ^a   Van Veen, Toon A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.5;

ARRHYTHMOGENIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL SIZE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART WORK; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYOCARDIAL FIBER DISARRAY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE VENTRICULAR REMODELING; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84911888453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00482     Document Type: Review

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