Smooth muscle cell migration and proliferation is enhanced in abdominal aortic aneurysms

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 305-308

  Patel, M I ^a   Ghosh, P ^a   Melrose, J ^a   Appleberg, M ^a  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Migration; Phenotype; Proliferation; Smooth muscle cell

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL KINETICS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR;

EID: 0029900284     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1996.tb01192.x     Document Type: Article

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