Active stiffening of mitral valve leaflets in the beating heart

The anterior leaflet of the mitral valve (MV), viewed traditionally as a passive membrane, is shown to be a highly active structure in the beating heart. Two types of leaflet contractile activity are demonstrated: 1) a brief twitch at the beginning of each beat (reflecting contraction of myocytes in...

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Autori principali: Itoh, Akinobu, Krishnamurthy, Gaurav, Swanson, Julia C., Ennis, Daniel B., Bothe, Wolfgang, Kuhl, Ellen, Karlsson, Matts, Davis, Lauren R., Miller, D. Craig, Ingels, Neil B.
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: American Physiological Society 2009
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4060839/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19363135
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00120.2009
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