کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2891741 1172290 2013 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Structural proteins and arterial ageing
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی کاردیولوژی و پزشکی قلب و عروق
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Structural proteins and arterial ageing
چکیده انگلیسی

In common with most dynamic tissues, the mechanical properties of arteries are determined by the relative composition and architecture of key structural extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins including fibrillar collagens and elastic fibre components. Although it is apparent that age-related loss of ECM homeostasis leads to arteriosclerosis (vascular stiffening), which in turn is associated with the development of both fatal strokes and heart failure, the principal molecular targets and causative mechanisms remain poorly defined. This review discusses: (i) the application of in situ micro-mechanical methodologies to localise the key molecular targets of age-related stiffening within arteries and other dynamic elastic tissues and (ii) the potential role played by the preferential oxidation of TGF-β binding elastic fibre-associated components in driving this aberrant tissue remodelling.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Artery Research - Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 15–21
نویسندگان
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