Local mechanical and structural properties of healthy and diseased human ascending aorta tissue

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-91

  Choudhury, Nusrat ^a   Bouchot, Olivier ^b   Rouleau, Leonie ^a,b   Tremblay, Dominique ^a,b   Cartier, Raymond ^b   Butany, Jagdish ^c   Mongrain, Rosaire ^a,b   Leask, Richard L ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aorta; Bicuspid; Elastic modulus; Hemodynamics; Mechanics

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRICUSPID VALVE; VASODILATATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY; ELASTIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 61349094822     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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