Electrically contractile polymers augment right ventricular output in the heart

Artificial Organs

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1034-1039

  Ruhparwar, Arjang ^a   Piontek, Patricia ^a   Ungerer, Matthias ^a   Ghodsizad, Ali ^a   Partovi, Sasan ^a   Foroughi, Javad ^b   Szabo, Gabor ^a   Farag, Mina ^a   Karck, Matthias ^a   Spinks, Geoffrey M ^b   Kim, Seon Jeong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Animal model; Contractile polymers; Heart failure approaches; Right ventricle; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CELL ENGINEERING; POLYPYRROLES; STEM CELLS; TISSUE;

ANIMAL MODEL; CARDIOMYOCYTES; CONTRACTILE POLYMER; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE APPROACH; HEART MUSCLES; RIGHT VENTRICLE; RIGHT VENTRICULAR; STEM-CELL; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

POLYMER; POLYPYRROLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CARDIOMYOPLASTY; DIASTOLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; INOTROPISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84923081113     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aor.12300     Document Type: Article

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