Smooth muscle cells of the media in the dilatative pathology of ascending thoracic aorta: Morphology, immunoreactivity for osteopontin, matrix metalloproteinases, and their inhibitors

Human Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1003-1011

  Lesauskaite, Vaiva ^a   Tanganelli, Piero ^a   Sassi, Carlo ^a   Neri, Eugenio ^a   Diciolla, Francesco ^a   Ivanoviene, Laima ^a   Epistolato, Maria Carmela ^a   Lalinga, Anna Vittoria ^a   Alessandrini, Carlo ^a   Spina, Donatella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Apoptosis; Matrix metalloproteinases; Osteopontin; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; OSTEOPONTIN; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TUNICA MEDIA; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0034808341     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/hupa.2001.27107     Document Type: Article

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