Accumulation of Elements in the Arteries and Cardiac Valves of Thai with Aging

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 71-92

  Ohnishi, Yoshiaki ^a   Tohno, Setsuko ^a   Mahakkanukrauh, Pasuk ^b   Tohno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Vaidhayakarn, Pidhyasak ^b   Azuma, Cho ^a   Satoh, Hiroyasu ^a   Moriwake, Yumi ^a   Chomsung, Ranida ^b   Minami, Takeshi ^c  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Aortic valve; Artery; Calcium; Cardiac valve; Mitral valve; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHORUS; TRACE ELEMENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AGING; AORTA SURGERY; ARTERY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; AXILLARY ARTERY; BIOACCUMULATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIAC ARTERY; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; JAPAN; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RENAL ARTERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; THAILAND; THORACIC AORTA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULNAR ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AORTIC VALVE; ARTERIES; FEMALE; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VALVE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THAILAND; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRICUSPID VALVE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 1642561884     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/BTER:96:1-3:71     Document Type: Article

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