Cardiovascular imaging: What have we learned from animal models?

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Santos, Arnoldo ^a,b,c,d   Fernández Friera, Leticia ^a,e   Villalba, María ^a   López Melgar, Beatriz ^a,e   España, Samuel ^a,b,c   Mateo, Jesús ^a,b   Mota, Ruben A ^a,f   Jiménez Borreguero, Jesús ^a,g   Ruiz Cabello, Jesús ^a,b,h  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c M Vision Madrid MIT Consortium   (Spain)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Hospital Universitario HM Monteprincipe   (Spain)

^f CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

animal models; Atherosclerosis; Biomedical imaging; Heart failure; Myocardial infarction; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE MODEL; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MOUSE MODEL; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDITIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PORCINE MODEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAT MODEL; REVIEW; RODENT; SMALL MAMMAL; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR LESION;

EID: 84949633507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2015.00227     Document Type: Review

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