Mechanisms of Right-ventricular Dysfunction in a Rat Model of Chronic Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension

Chronic neonatal pulmonary hypertension (PHT) frequently presents with rightventricular (RV) dysfunction. In neonatal rats exposed to chronic hypoxia, RV dysfunction is reversed by sustained rescue treatment with a Rho-kinase (ROCK) inhibitor – the caveat being systemic hypotension. We therefore exa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gosal, Kiranjot
Other Authors: Jankov, Robert
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Rat
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42849