Human aortocoronary grafts and nitric oxide release: Relationship to pulsatile pressure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 480-485

  Bilfmger, Thomas V ^a   Stefano, George B ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GRANULOCYTE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; PRESSURE; PULSATILE FLOW; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THORACIC ARTERIES;

EID: 0034005945     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01083-8     Document Type: Article

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