Pulsatile flow: A critical modulator of the natural history of atherosclerosis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 338-340

  Chatzizisis, Yiannis S ^a   Giannoglou, George D ^a  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DECELERATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPICARDIUM; HEART RATE; HYPOTHESIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SHEAR STRESS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PULSATILE FLOW; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33744803482     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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