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Published in final edited form as: Med Clin North Am. 2009 May;93(3):583–Contents. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2009.02.008

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Age-associated aortic structural remodeling. (A) Arterial immunostaining for α-SMA (brown) from monkeys. Arrowhead indicates internal elastin lamina. (B) Movat staining (upper panels) and immunohistochemical staining (brown color) for α-SMA (middle panels) and for CD68 (brown color) (lower panels) in aorta from humans. (C) Toludine blue staining for mast cells in old human aorta (left panel) and observed under an oil lens (right panel). I, intima; L, lumen; M, media. Up-down arrows indicate thickened intima. (From Wang M, Takagi G, Asai K, et al. Aging increases aortic MMP-2 activity and angiotensin II in nonhuman primates. Hypertension 2003;41(6):1308–16 and Wang M, Zhang J, Jiang LQ, et al. Proinflammatory profile within the grossly normal aged human aortic wall. Hypertension 2007;50(1):219–7; with permission.)

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