Accurate normalization factor for wire myography of rat femoral artery

Physiological Research

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1033-1036

  Slezak P ^a   Waczulikova I ^b   Balis P ^a   Puzserova A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Normalization procedure; Rat femoral artery; Wire myograph

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMORAL ARTERY; INSTRUMENTATION; MESENTERIC ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MYOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMORAL ARTERY; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MYOGRAPHY; RATS;

EID: 78651499626     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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