Local elastic modulus of atherosclerotic lesions of rabbit thoracic aortas measured by pipette aspiration method

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 635-648

  Matsumoto, Takeo ^a,d   Abe, Hironobu ^a,b   Ohashi, Toshiro ^a   Kato, Yoko ^a,c   Sato, Masaaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Foam cell; Histology; Mechanical property; Smooth muscle cell

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE; CELLS; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOLOGY; ELASTIC MODULI; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE;

ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS; FEEDING PERIOD; FOAM CELLS; HISTOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; LOCALISED; NORMAL TISSUE; PIPETTE ASPIRATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; THORACIC AORTA;

BIOMINERALIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ATHEROGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOAM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THORACIC AORTA; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; ELASTICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; ELASTICITY; FOAM CELLS; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PRESSURE; RABBITS;

EID: 0036853760     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/23/4/304     Document Type: Article

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