Hui Han∗, David C. C. Lam†, Wei Huang†,‡
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 295-308, 2012, DOI:10.3970/mcb.2012.009.295
Abstract The objective of our study was to study the effect of danshen, a Chinese herbal medicine known to prevent hypertension, on the zero-stress state of rat's abdominal aorta. The zero-stress state of a blood vessel represents the release of residual stress on the vessel wall, and is the basic configuration of blood vessel affected solely by intrinsic parameters. At the in vivo state, the rat's abdominal aorta was subjected to blood pressure and flow and longitudinal stress. After dissecting from the abdominal aorta, the aortic specimens were cut into small rings at no-load state, in which the internal pressure, external… More >
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