The use of fluorescent nuclear dyes and laser scanning confocal microscopy to study the cellular aspects of arterial remodelling in human subjects with critical limb ischaemia

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 547-554

  Coats, Paul ^a   Jarajapu, Y P R ^b   Hillier, C ^b   McGrath, J C ^c   Daly, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUORESCENT DYE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE;

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ARTERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPLASIA; HYPOTENSION; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; PERFUSION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THICKNESS; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0037770124     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/eph8802552     Document Type: Article

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