Changes in aortic stiffness related to elastic fiber network anomalies in the Brown Norway rat during maturation and aging

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Osborne Pellegrin, Mary ^a   Labat, Carlos ^a   Mercier, Nathalie ^a   Challande, Pascal ^b,c   Lacolley, Patrick ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

Author keywords

Abdominal aorta; Collagen; Elastin; Incremental elastic modulus stress curves; Internal elastic lamina ruptures

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; ENALAPRIL; MIBEFRADIL;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA WALL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTIC FIBER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTIC TISSUE; ENALAPRIL; MALE; MIBEFRADIL; PULSATILE FLOW; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77953763396     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00040.2010     Document Type: Article

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