Extracellular matrix of the human aortic media: An ultrastructural histochemical and immunohistochemical study of the adult aortic media

Anatomical Record

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-14

  Dingemans, Koert P ^a   Teeling, Peter ^a   Lagendijk, Jaap H ^a   Becker, Anton E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aorta; Collagen; Elastin; Electr on microscopy; Extracellular matrix; Fibrillin; Fibronectin; Proteoglycan

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DERMATAN SULFATE; ELASTIN; FIBRILLIN; FIBRONECTIN; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; PROTEOGLYCAN; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PROTEOGLYCANS; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0033988834     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(20000101)258:1<1::AID-AR1>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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