Enhanced constriction of supplying arteries - A mechanism of femoral head Necrosis in Wistar rats?

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-61

  Drescher, Wolf ^a   Lohse, Janne ^b   Varoga, Deike ^b   Buschmann, Christian ^a   Liebs, Thoralf ^b   Herdegen, Thomas ^c   Hassenpflug, Joachim ^b   Pufe, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Femoral artery; Osteonecrosis of the femoral head; Small vessel myography; Spontaneous hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; MALE; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANIMALS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MYOGRAPHY; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 75449116121     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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