Fibrillar, fibril-associated and basement membrane collagens of the arterial wall: Architecture, elasticity and remodeling under stress

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1124-1133

  Osidak, M S ^a,c   Osidak, E O ^a,c   Akhmanova, M A ^c   Domogatsky, S P ^b,c   Domogatskaya, A S ^c,d  

^a N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL CARDIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Imtek Limited   (Russian Federation)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artery; Atherosclerosis; Collagen scaffold; Collagen turnover; Elasticity; Extracellular matrix; Mechanoelasticity; MMP; Remodeling; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 13; COLLAGEN TYPE 14; COLLAGEN TYPE 15; COLLAGEN TYPE 16; COLLAGEN TYPE 18; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; COLLAGEN TYPE 6; COLLAGEN TYPE 8; COLLAGEN TYPE XIX; ELASTIN; FIBRIL ASSOCIATED COLLAGEN; FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADVENTITIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CELL ADHESION; CIRCULATION; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; DECOMPOSITION; ELASTICITY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBER; HUMAN; INTIMA; MACROMOLECULE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROFILAMENT; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TUNICA MEDIA; VISCOELASTICITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARTERY; BLOOD; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR REMODELING;

ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRIL-ASSOCIATED COLLAGENS; FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS; HUMANS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VASCULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84925846558     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1381612820666141013122906     Document Type: Article

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