Gender differences in abdominal aortic aneurysms

Vascular

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Hannawa, Kevin K ^a   Eliason, Jonathan L ^a   Upchurch Jr , Gilbert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysms; Estrogen; Gender; Matrix metalloproteinases

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; SEX HORMONE; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADVENTITIA; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA WALL; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL LOSS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; AGED; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CHEMOKINES; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GONADAL HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 70349256230     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6670.2008.00092     Document Type: Article

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