Elastin variations implicating in vascular smooth muscle cells phenotype in human tortuous arteries

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-100

  Ortiz, Pedro Pablo ^a   Sarrat, R ^b   Daret, D ^b   Whyte, J ^b   Torres, A ^b   Lamazière, J M Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arterial thickening; Arterial tortuosity; Elastin; Vascular smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ELASTIN;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ADULT; ARTERIES; ELASTIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0033972229     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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