Effects of aging and blood pressure on the structure of the thoracic aorta in SAM mice: A model of age-associated degenerative vascular changes

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 111-124

  Zhu, B H ^a,d   Ueno, M ^b   Matsushita, T ^a   Fujisawa, H ^a   Seriu, N ^c   Nishikawa, T ^c   Nishimura, Y ^a   Hosokawa, M ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Aorta; Medial thickening; Morphometry; Senescence accelerated mouse; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEART RATE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THICKNESS; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGING; AGING, PREMATURE; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0035189964     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(00)00179-0     Document Type: Article

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