New insights in atherosclerosis: Endothelial shear stress as promoter rather than initiator

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 989-993

  Mehdizadeh, Alireza ^a   Norouzpour, Amir ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA INTIMA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FATIGUE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SHEAR STRESS; TISSUE REPAIR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 70449728113     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.11.049     Document Type: Article

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