Two-photon microscopy of vital murine elastic and muscular arteries: Combined structural and functional imaging with subcellular resolution

Journal of Vascular Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 87-98

  Megens, R T A ^a   Reitsma, S ^a   Schiffers, P H M ^a   Hilgers, R H P ^a   De Mey, J G R ^a   Slaaf, D W ^a,b   Oude Egbrink, M G A ^a   Van Zandvoort, M A M J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arterial wall; Endothelial glycocalyx; Extracellular matrix; Geometric deformations; Multiphoton excited fluorescence; Nucleus; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VIABILITY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; UTERUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CELL NUCLEUS; COLLAGEN; ELASTICITY; ELASTIN; FEMALE; GLYCOCALYX; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NOREPINEPHRINE; UTERUS; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 33847023826     PISSN: 10181172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098259     Document Type: Article

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