... developmental and cardiovascular toxicities caused by cigarette smoke and snuff, and include a new zebrafish embryo model for studying abdominal aortic aneurysm. Zebrafish Aneurysm Aorta Tobacco Snuff Cardiovascular The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently reported that tobacco use...

... of endurance training on the gene expression and protein content and/or activity of elastin, elastase, cathepsin K, and plasmin in skeletal and heart muscles and in the aorta. Healthy rats were randomly divided into untrained ( n =10) and trained ( n =10; 6 weeks of endurance training with increasing load...

... hematopoietic development is as yet unknown. We show here that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) differentially express α IIb β 3 and α v β 3 integrins throughout development. Whereas the first HSCs generated in the aorta at mid-gestation express both integrins, HSCs from the placenta only express α v β 3...