Postnatal changes in the rheological properties of the aorta in Sprague-Dawley rats

Experimental Animals

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-93

  Katsuda, Shin Ichiro ^a   Waki, Hidefumi ^a   Yamasaki, Masao ^a   Nagayama, Tadanori ^a   O Ishi, Hirotaka ^a   Katahira, Kiyoaki ^a   Machida, Noboru ^b   Hasegawa, Masamitsu ^c   Shimizu, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Growth; Rheological properties; Sprague Dawley rat

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TENSILE STRENGTH; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; ELASTICITY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0036358533     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.51.83     Document Type: Article

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