Aortic medial necrosis with or without thrombosis in rabbits treated with Russell's viper venom and angiotensin II

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-156

  Nakamura, Motoomi ^a   Abe, Shimako ^a   Kinukawa, Naoko ^b  

^a NAKAMURA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; angiotensin II; aorta; arterial thrombosis; arteriosclerosis; medial necrosis; WHHL rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; SEROTONIN; VIPER VENOM;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NECROSIS; RABBITS; REFERENCE VALUES; RUSSELL'S VIPER; SEROTONIN; THROMBOSIS; TUNICA MEDIA; VIPER VENOMS;

EID: 0031048488     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(96)05995-3     Document Type: Article

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