Structural Organization of Hepatic Portal Vein in Rat with Special Reference to Musculature, Intimal Folds, and Endothelial Cell Alignment

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1887-1895

  Dong, Hong Ming ^a,b   Ichimura, Koichiro ^a   Sakai, Tatsuo ^a,c  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elastic lamina; Endothelial cell; Smooth muscle cell; Ultrastructure; Vascular wall

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AXIS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FORCE; GRAVITY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUNICA MEDIA; VEIN WALL;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PORTAL VEIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS; RATTUS;

EID: 78049478418     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21246     Document Type: Article

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