The importance of elastin to aortic development in mice

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Wagenseil, Jessica E ^a   Ciliberto, Christopher H ^b   Knutsen, Russell H ^b   Levy, Marilyn A ^b   Kovacs, Attila ^c   Mecham, Robert P ^b  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Blood pressure; Elastin; Mechanics; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; FIBRILLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA CONTENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART OUTPUT; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPLIANCE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELASTIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; ORGANOGENESIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 77955438820     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00194.2010     Document Type: Article

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