Correlations between age, prestrain, diameter and atherosclerosis in the male abdominal aorta

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2128-2132

  Horny, Lukas ^a   Adamek, Tomas ^b   Gultova, Eva ^a   Zitny, Rudolf ^a   Vesely, Jan ^a   Chlup, Hynek ^a   Konvickova, Svatava ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Abdominal aorta; Aging; Atherosclerosis; Elasticity; Prestrain

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMAN ABDOMINAL AORTA; HUMAN ARTERY; LEFT VENTRICLES; LINEAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; P-VALUES; PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; POWER LAW EQUATION; PRE-STRAIN; REGRESSION MODEL; STRETCH RATIO;

AGING OF MATERIALS; DISEASES; ELASTICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA PRESTRAIN; ADULT; AGING; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CADAVER; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 81255157825     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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