Article
Structural organization of pulmonary arteries in the rat lung.
Anatomy and embryology - 1 Jun 1995
Sasaki S, Kobayashi N, Dambara T, Kira S, Sakai T
Abstract excerpt
The structure of the normal pulmonary arteries in the rat was studied with light and electron microscopy after use of a newly devised technique of perfusion fixation and tissue preparation. We distinguished two main types of artery in the rat lung on the basis of the structure of the media, an elastic artery and a muscular artery. The elastic artery was characterized by an abundance of extracellular matrix in the...
Topics
- Actin Cytoskeleton
- Animals
- Elastic Tissue
- Endothelins
- Extracellular Matrix
- Lung
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
- Phenotype
- Pulmonary Artery
- Rats