Scaling of left ventricle cardiomyocyte ultrastructure across development in the kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1767-1776

  Snelling, Edward P ^a   Taggart, David A ^a   Maloney, Shane K ^b   Farrell, Anthony P ^c   Leigh, Christopher M ^a   Waterhouse, Lyn ^a   Williams, Ruth ^a   Seymour, Roger S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heart; Laplace; Marsupial; Ontogeny; Remodelling; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; KANGAROO; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; HEART VENTRICLES; MACROPODIDAE; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOFIBRILS; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84955595405     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.119453     Document Type: Article

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