Functional assessment of cryopreserved human aortas for pharmaceutical research

Cell and Tissue Banking

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-123

  Rendal Vázquez, Ma Esther ^a   Rodriguez Cabarcos M ^a   Martinez Santos M V ^a   Fernandez Mallo R O ^a   Sanchez Ibanez J ^a   Segura Iglesias, R ^a   Matheu Capo G ^a   Filgueira Fernandez P ^a   Pertega Diaz S ^a   Bermudez Gonzalez T ^a  

^a Statistics Department   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contractibilty responses; Cryopreservation; Endothelium dependent relaxant responses; Endothelium independent relaxant responses; Vascular Segment

Indexed keywords

AORTA; AORTA CONSTRICTION; AORTA GRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; THAWING; THORACIC AORTA; TISSUE PREPARATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AORTA, THORACIC; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROPRUSSIDE; NOREPINEPHRINE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 3242729410     PISSN: 13899333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CATB.0000034087.26468.5a     Document Type: Article

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