Aged lymphatic contractility: Recent answers and new questions

Lymphatic Research and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-13

  Gashev, Anatoliy A ^a   Chatterjee, Victor ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HISTAMINE; HISTIDINE DECARBOXYLASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; STEM CELL FACTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGING; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; CHRONOTROPISM; DNA DAMAGE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYMPH FLOW; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; LYMPHATIC CONTRACTILITY; MAST CELL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THORACIC DUCT; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MAST CELLS; MESENTERY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; THORACIC DUCT;

EID: 84875661260     PISSN: 15396851     EISSN: 15578585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lrb.2013.0003     Document Type: Review

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