Cardiac and aortic structural alterations due to surgically-induced menopause associated with renovascular hypertension in rats

International Journal of Experimental Pathology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 301-309

  Mendonça, Leonardo De Souza ^a   Fernandes Santos, Caroline ^a   Mandarim De Lacerda, Carlos Alberto ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adverse cardiovascular remodelling; Experimental study; Ovariectomy; Renovascular hypertension; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; AORTA WALL; ARTERY MEDIA; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; STEREOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THORACIC AORTA; TIBIA; TUNICA MEDIA; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MENOPAUSE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UTERUS; VAGINA; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 34547893007     PISSN: 09599673     EISSN: 13652613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2613.2007.00546.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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