Effects of hypertension on morphological, contractile and mechanical properties of rat aortic smooth muscle cells

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 340-347

  Matsumoto, Takeo ^a,b   Yamamoto, Mitsunobu ^a   Seo, Shinji ^a   Sato, Junpei ^a   Kato, Yoko ^a   Sato, Masaaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Endoplasmic reticulum; Golgi apparatus; Hypertrophy; Mechanical adaptation; Phenotypic transformation; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 81855183218     PISSN: 18655025     EISSN: 18655033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12195-011-0182-y     Document Type: Article

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