Regional heterogeneity within the aorta: Relevance to aneurysm disease

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1123-1130

  Ruddy, Jean Marie ^a   Jones, Jeffrey A ^a   Spinale, Francis G ^a   Ikonomidis, John S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; PROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOMECHANICS; DIAPHRAGM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRESS; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; HUMANS;

EID: 56249097200     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.06.027     Document Type: Article

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