Artery Research
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 122-127 , December 2011

Regulation of arterial stiffness: Cellular, molecular and neurogenic mechanisms

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☆ Presented as the invited McDonald Lecture by Alberto Avolio at the Artery11 Meeting of the Association for Research into Arterial Structure and Physiology, Maison Internationale, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France, 13–15 October, 2011.

PII: S1872-9312(11)00059-7

doi: 10.1016/j.artres.2011.10.002

Artery Research
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 122-127 , December 2011

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