Wall properties of the apolipoprotein E-deficient mouse aorta

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 314-320

  Agianniotis, Aristotelis ^a   Stergiopulos, Nikos ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active diameter response; Arterial wall properties; Atherosclerosis; Mouse aorta; Vascular smooth muscle cells; Wall dysfunction

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THORACIC AORTA;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPLIANCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTIC MODULUS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PRESSURE; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 84864781130     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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