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Stiffness of vascular smooth muscle cells from aged primates measured using reconstituted tissue model
Increased stiffness of the aorta is an important detrimental change that occurs with aging. Most previous research has implicated stiffening of the extracellular collagen matrix with age. The study reported in this thesis focused instead on the potential contribution from stiffening of the vascular …