The mechanical performance and histomorphological structure of the descending aorta in hyperthyroidism

Angiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-352

  Moulakakis, Konstantinos G ^a,b,c   Sokolis, Dimitrios P ^a   Perrea, Despina N ^b   Dosios, Theodosios ^b   Dontas, Ismene ^b   Poulakou, Maria V ^b   Dimitriou, Constantinos A ^a   Sandris, George ^a   Karayannacos, Panayotis E ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DRINKING WATER; ELASTIN; LEVOTHYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA WALL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOSTASIS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTICITY; ELASTIN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THYROXINE; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 34250759853     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707301759     Document Type: Article

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