| Autor: |
Yoshitaka Fujimoto, Takashi Urashima, Daisuke Shimura, Reiji Ito, Sadataka Kawachi, Ichige Kajimura, Toru Akaike, Yoichiro Kusakari, Masako Fujiwara, Kiyoshi Ogawa, Nobuhito Goda, Hiroyuki Ida, Susumu Minamisawa |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2016 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 2, p e0148666 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
| DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0148666 |
| Popis: |
BACKGROUND:Hepatic fibrosis progresses with right heart failure, and becomes cardiac cirrhosis in a severe case. Although its causal factor still remains unclear. Here we evaluated the progression of hepatic fibrosis using a pulmonary artery banding (PAB)-induced right heart failure model and investigated whether cardiac output (CO) is responsible for the progression of hepatic fibrosis. METHODS AND RESULTS:Five-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats divided into the PAB and sham-operated control groups. After 4 weeks from operation, we measured CO by echocardiography, and hepatic fibrosis ratio by pathological examination using a color analyzer. In the PAB group, CO was significantly lower by 48% than that in the control group (78.2±27.6 and 150.1±31.2 ml/min, P |
| Databáze: |
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