Ovine middle cerebral artery characterization and quantification of ultrastructure and other features: Changes with development

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Goyal, Ravi ^a   Henderson, David A ^a   Chu, Nina ^a   Longo, Lawrence D ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fascicle; Fetus; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; INTEGRIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SHEEP; SYMPATHOMIMETICS;

EID: 84857528690     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00519.2011     Document Type: Article

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