Morphology favors an endothelial cell pathway for longitudinal conduction within arterioles

Microvascular Research

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 113-120

  Haas, Tara L ^a,b   Duling, Brian R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

EID: 0031106311     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mvre.1996.1999     Document Type: Article

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