Capillary changes in skeletal muscle of patients with essential hypertension

Anatomical Record

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 425-432

  Hernández, Noelina ^a,d   Torres, Sonia H ^a   Finol, Héctor J ^b   Vera, Omaira ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Endothelial cells; Hypertension; Muscle capillaries; Muscles fiber types; Pericytes

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344146618     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(19991201)256:4<425::AID-AR9>3.3.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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