Contractility changes of the right and ventricular muscle after chronic myocardial infarction.
Contractility changes and adaptive responses resulting from acute left ventricular (LV) myocardial infarction are not restricted to the LV myocardium. The reduced LV function increased the right ventricular (RV) pressure load and neurohumoral factors, activated by the infarction
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Departamento de Ciências Fisiológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brasil.
Stefanon
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Mill
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Vassallo
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D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right
D002118:Calcium