Microfibrils provide non-linear elastic behaviour in the abdominal artery of the lobster Homarus americanus

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 499, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 513-526

  McConnell, Colin J ^a   DeMont, M Edwin ^a   Wright, Glenda M ^b  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRILLIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA WALL; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINODERM; ELASTIC FIBER; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LOBSTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0030969682     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1997.sp021945     Document Type: Article

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