Treatment with simvastatin inhibits the formation of abdominal aortic aneurysms in rabbits

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 250-258

  Mastoraki, Sotiria T ^a,b   Toumpoulis, Ioannis K ^a,b   Anagnostopoulos, Constantine E ^a,b   Tiniakos, Dina ^a,b   Papalois, Apostolos ^a,b   Chamogeorgakis, Themistocles P ^a,b   Angouras, Dimitrios C ^a,b   Rokkas, Chris K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ELPEN Pharmaceuticals   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; GELATINASE INHIBITOR; SIMVASTATIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; RABBITS; SIMVASTATIN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-1;

EID: 84856552165     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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