Structural and biomechanical alterations in rabbit thoracic aortas are associated with the progression of atherosclerosis

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Koniari, Ioanna ^a   Mavrilas, Dimosthenis ^b   Papadaki, Helen ^b   Karanikolas, Menelaos ^a   Mandellou, Martha ^a   Papalois, Apostolos ^c   Koletsis, Efstratios ^a   Dougenis, Dimitrios ^a   Apostolakis, Efstratios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c ELPEN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENIC DIET; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; THORACIC AORTA; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FOAM CELL; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMECHANICS; CHOLESTEROL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FOAM CELLS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; RABBITS;

EID: 79960692972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-511X-10-125     Document Type: Article

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