The venous valve agger and plasma noradrenaline-mediated venodilator feedback

Phlebology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 116-130

  Crotty, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dilator feedback; Plasma noradrenaline; Valve agger; Varicose veins; Vasa venarum

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

AGGER; ARTICLE; DOG; ELASTIC FIBER; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STIMULUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VEIN DILATATION; VEIN VALVE; VEIN WALL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; ELASTIC TISSUE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VARICOSIS; VASA VASORUM; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; DOGS; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NOREPINEPHRINE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VARICOSE VEINS; VASA VASORUM; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 39749098949     PISSN: 02683555     EISSN: 14333031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/026835507780807293     Document Type: Article

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