Biomechanics of common carotid arteries from mice heterozygous for mgR, the most common mouse model of Marfan syndrome
Marfan syndrome, affecting approximately one out of every 5,000 people, is characterized by abnormal bone growth, ectopia lentis, and often-fatal aortic dilation and dissection. The root cause is a faulty extracellular matrix protein, fibrillin-1, which associates with elastin in many tissues. Commo...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1048 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1048 |