High accumulation of calcium in human uterine artery with aging

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 203-210

  Naganuma, Takashi ^a   Tohno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yamasaki, Mineo ^a   Tohno, Setsuko ^a   Azuma, Cho ^a   Minami, Takeshi ^b   Morikawa, Hajime ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Artery; Calcium; Internal pudendal artery; Obturator artery; Umbilical artery; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARTERIES; CALCIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; UTERUS;

EID: 10044281474     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/BTER:101:3:203     Document Type: Article

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