Role of vasa vasorum in transendothelial solute transport in the coronary vessel wall: A study with cryostatic micro-CT

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 287, Issue 5 56-5, 2004, Pages

  Gössl, Mario ^a   Beighley, Patricia E ^a   Malyar, Nasser M ^a   Ritman, Erik L ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery wall perfusion; Endothelium; Hypercholesterolemia; Microscopic computed tomography; Permeability

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADVENTITIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY PERMEABILITY; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL DIET; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTIMA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SOLUTE; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASA VASORUM; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; X RAY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOPAMIDOL; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 7244250266     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00066.2004     Document Type: Article

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