Decreased aortic diameter and compliance precedes blood pressure increases in postnatal development of elastin-insufficient mice

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Le, Victoria P ^a   Knutsen, Russell H ^a   Mecham, Robert P ^a   Wagenseil, Jessica E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extracellular matrix; Vasculature; Vessels

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPLIANCE; ELASTICITY; ELASTIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79959896044     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00119.2011     Document Type: Article

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