How to improve the overall quality of cardiac morphometric data

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 309, Issue 1, 2015, Pages H9-H14

  Gerdes, A Martin ^a  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillaries; Cardiac myocytes; Fixation artifacts; Morphometry; Myocardium

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASCULAR REMODELING; ANIMAL; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SARCOMERE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HEART; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SARCOMERES; TISSUE PRESERVATION; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84935448334     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00232.2015     Document Type: Review

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