Pathobiology of idiopathic ascending aortic aneurysms

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 254-260

  Kirsch, E W Matthias ^a   Radu, N Costin ^a   Allaire, Eric ^a   Loisance, Daniel Y ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; DNA FRAGMENT; FAS ANTIGEN; FIBRILLIN 1; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; SERINE PROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANGIOGENESIS; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA FLOW; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ASCENDING AORTA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CELL LOSS; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NICK END LABELING; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TISSUE REPAIR; VASODILATATION;

EID: 33745043285     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230601400320     Document Type: Review

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