A New Animal Model for Investigation of Mechanical Unloading in Hypertrophic and Failing Hearts: Combination of Transverse Aortic Constriction and Heterotopic Heart Transplantation

OBJECTIVES: Previous small animal models for simulation of mechanical unloading are solely performed in healthy or infarcted hearts, not representing the pathophysiology of hypertrophic and dilated hearts emerging in heart failure patients. In this article, we present a new and economic small animal...

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Autores principales: Schaefer, Andreas, Schneeberger, Yvonne, Stenzig, Justus, Biermann, Daniel, Jelinek, Marisa, Reichenspurner, Hermann, Eschenhagen, Thomas, Ehmke, Heimo, Schwoerer, Alexander P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26841021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148259

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