The microscopic transitional zone between elastic and muscular arteries

Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 909-914

  Janzen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artery; Atherosclerosis; Non atherosclerotic vascular pathology; Transitional zone

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ARTERY; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RENAL ARTERY; REVIEW; TOPOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTINS; APOPTOSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RENAL ARTERY;

EID: 4644240511     PISSN: 00039683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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