Mechanical responses of tracheal tissue in vitro: Dependance on the tissue preparation employed and relationship to smooth muscle content

Pulmonary Pharmacology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 157-166

  Florio, Chiara ^a   Styhler, Angela ^a   Heisler, Seymour ^a   Martin, James G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airway responsiveness; Morphometry; Myosin

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; MYOSIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THICKNESS; TISSUE PREPARATION; TRACHEA; TRACHEA PRESSURE;

EID: 0030175131     PISSN: 09520600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pulp.1996.0018     Document Type: Article

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