Exogenous 17-β estradiol administration blunts progression of established angiotensin II-induced abdominal aortic aneurysms in female ovariectomized mice

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Thatcher, Sean E ^a   Zhang, Xuan ^a   Woody, Shannon ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Alsiraj, Yasir ^a   Charnigo, Richard ^b   Daugherty, Alan ^a   Cassis, Lisa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysms; Angiotensin; Atherosclerosis; Estrogen; Transforming growth factor beta

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027953096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13293-015-0030-1     Document Type: Article

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