Increased diameter and enhanced myogenic response of saphenous vein induced by two-week experimental orthostasis are reversible

Physiological Research

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-183

  Raffai, G ^a   Lodi C ^a   Illyes G ^a   Nadasy G ^a   Monos, E ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Endothelial cell density; Head up tilt; Saphenous vein; Smooth muscle cell density; Vascular responses

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAVITY; HEMODYNAMICS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GRAVITY, ALTERED; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 45849090007     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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