Through thick and thin collagen fibrils, stress, and aortic rupture: Another piece in the jigsaw

Circulation

Volumn 115, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 2687-2688

  Powell, Janet T ^a   Länne, Toste ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aorta; Collagen; Editorials; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

BIGLYCAN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; FIBRILLIN 1; NITRIC OXIDE; PROCOLLAGEN LYSINE 2 OXOGLUTARATE 5 DIOXYGENASE; PROTEOGLYCAN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2;

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA FLOW; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA WALL; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME MAP; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; ELASTICITY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MARFAN SYNDROME; MECHANICAL STRESS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; AORTIC RUPTURE; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEOGLYCANS; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STRESS;

EID: 34249686572     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.709139     Document Type: Editorial

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