Differential effects of relaxin deficiency on vascular aging in arteries of male mice

Age

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Jelinic, Maria ^a   Tare, Marianne ^b   Conrad, Kirk P ^c   Parry, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Mesenteric, femoral; Relaxin knockout; Volume compliance

Indexed keywords

RELAXIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LGR7 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL ARTERY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RELAXIN DEFICIENCY; RXFP1 GENE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMORAL ARTERY; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RELAXIN; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; VASODILATION;

EID: 84934980842     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-015-9803-z     Document Type: Article

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