Hemodynamic and cellular response feedback in calcific aortic valve disease

Circulation Research

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 186-197

  Gould, Sarah T ^a   Srigunapalan, Suthan ^b   Simmons, Craig A ^b   Anseth, Kristi S ^a,c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

effective orifice area; endothelial dysfunction; valve tissue remodeling; valvular endothelial cells; valvular interstitial cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; ELASTIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; INTERLEUKIN 16; MACROGOL; PROSTACYCLIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULOTROPIN B; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBROBLAST; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MICROENVIRONMENT; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCLEROSIS; SHEAR STRESS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EFFECTIVE ORIFICE AREA; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; VALVE TISSUE REMODELING; VALVULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; VALVULAR INTERSTITIAL CELLS;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 84880534333     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.112.300154     Document Type: Article

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