Biaxial mechanical properties of intact and layer-dissected human carotid arteries at physiological and supraphysiological loadings

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Sommer, Gerhard ^a   Regitnig, Peter ^b   Költringer, Lukas ^b   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arterial wall mechanics; Biaxial testing; Biomechanics; Human carotid artery; Residual stress

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; DISSECTION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; HYPOBARISM; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTIMA; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 77749279489     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00378.2009     Document Type: Article

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