Article
Clenbuterol induces hypertrophy of the latissimus dorsi muscle and heart in the rat with molecular and phenotypic changes.
Circulation - 1 Nov 1995
Petrou M, Wynne D G, Boheler K R, Yacoub M H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Skeletal muscle assistance of the circulation for patients in end-stage heart failure requires electrical training of the latissimus dorsi flap to produce fatigue resistance. This process of electrical transformation and the development of postmobilization atrophy results in a profoun...
Topics
- Adipose Tissue
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Body Weight
- Cardiomegaly
- Clenbuterol
- Forelimb
- Hypertrophy
- Kidney
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Myocardium
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Phenotype
- RNA
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley