Chronic intermittent low-level transcutaneous electrical stimulation of auricular branch of vagus nerve improves left ventricular remodeling in conscious dogs with healed myocardial infarction

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1014-1021

  Wang, Zhuo ^a   Yu, Lilei ^a   Wang, Songyun ^a   Huang, Bing ^a   Liao, Kai ^a   Saren, Gaowa ^a   Tan, Tuantuan ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a  

^a RENMIN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Left ventricular remodeling; Myocardial infarction; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; GELATINASE B; NORADRENALIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1-76);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANINE MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; INFARCTION; MALE; NEEDLE ELECTRODE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD; DOG; HEMODYNAMICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DOGS; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; NOREPINEPHRINE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84925800014     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.114.001564     Document Type: Article

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