Calcification of medial elastic fibers and aortic elasticity

Hypertension

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 999-1006

  Niederhoffer, Nathalie ^a   Lartaud Idjouadiene, Isabelle ^a   Giummelly, Philippe ^a   Duvivier, Claude ^b   Peslin, René ^b   Atkinson, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

calcium; cholecalciferol; desmosine; elasticity; pulse wave; rats

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL; DESMOSINE; ISODESMOSINE; NICOTINE; VITAMIN D;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTICITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RAT; SHEAR STRESS; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; VITAMIN D INTOXICATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 0030896199     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.29.4.999     Document Type: Article

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