Hypoxic effects on cholesterol metabolism of cultured rat aortic and brain microvascular endothelial cells, and aortic vascular smooth muscle cells

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-25

  Arai, Yukio ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Sakuragawa, Norio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Brain microvascular endothelial cells; Cholesterol metabolism; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL; ANOXIA; AORTA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CELL CULTURE; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; AORTA; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHOLESTEROL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030229605     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.180.17     Document Type: Article

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