A constituent-based model of age-related changes in conduit arteries

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Tsamis, Alkiviadis ^a   Rachev, Alexander ^b   Stergiopulos, Nikos ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial remodeling; Collagen cross linking; Elastin fatigue damage; Vascular mechanics

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

ADULT; AGING; ARTERY; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONDUIT ARTERY; CONSTRAINED MIXTURE THEORY; CONTINUUM DAMAGE THEORY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRESS INDUCED STRUCTURE BASED REMODELING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORY; THORACIC AORTA;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIES; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLLAGEN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELASTICITY; ELASTIN; GLYCOSYLATION END PRODUCTS, ADVANCED; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 80053286516     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00570.2010     Document Type: Article

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