Effect of aortic taper on patterns of blood flow and wall shear stress in rabbits: Association with age

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 114-121

  Peiffer, Véronique ^a   Rowland, Ethan M ^a   Cremers, Stephanie G ^a   Weinberg, Peter D ^a   Sherwin, Spencer J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Computational fluid dynamics; Haemodynamics; Rabbit; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ARCH; AORTA FLOW; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SHEAR STRESS; STIMULATION; THORACIC AORTA;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION CASTING; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RABBITS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STRESS, MECHANICAL; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863091910     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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