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  • 标题:Optical Measurement of Age-Related Calcification in Human Blood Vessels
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  • 作者:Shuichiro Fukushima ; Tsutomu Araki ; Yoshiyuki Tohno
  • 期刊名称:Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and Applied Human Science
  • 印刷版ISSN:1345-3475
  • 出版年度:2005
  • 卷号:24
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:493-496
  • DOI:10.2114/jpa.24.493
  • 出版社:Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology
  • 摘要:

    Vascular calcification is commonly associated with aging. Quantification of calcium accumulation in vessel walls is important in understanding the mechanisms of vascular calcification. To elucidate age-related change of calcification, site dependence of calcification, and the effect of hemodynamic stress on calcification, we measured calcium contents in various blood vessels with atomic emission spectrometry and simulated blood flow in the vessels by computational fluid dynamics. The content of calcium in the arteries increased progressively with aging while there is no change in the veins. The higher accumulation of calcium occurred in the arteries of the lower limb in comparison to the arteries of the upper limb. In the arterial bifurcation, there was the correlation at hemodynamic stress distribution and calcium content. The results of this study quantitatively support clinical findings of nonuniform calcification, and suggest that hemodynamic stress affects vascular calcification.

  • 关键词:calcification; aging; hemodynamics; atomic emission spectrometry; computational fluid dynamics
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