Mechanical properties of small femoral arteries in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1013-1034

  Bund, Stuart J ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

femoral arteries; incremental elastic modulus; mechanical properties; spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMORAL ARTERY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 0029800103     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641969609081032     Document Type: Article

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