Axial nonuniformity of geometric and mechanical properties of mouse aorta is increased during postnatal growth

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Huang, Yi ^a   Guo, Xiaomei ^a   Kassab, Ghassan S ^a,b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance; Development; Elastic modulus; Stress strain relation; Wall thickness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA VALVE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; YOUNG MODULUS; AGING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); ELASTICITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INTIMA; MECHANICAL STRESS; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPLIANCE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33644864326     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00803.2005     Document Type: Article

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