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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2014 Dec 1;65(2):370–377. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.04456

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Aortic structural remodeling in hypertension differs from that of age. Overall morphology was compared from Mason's Trichrome staining of the thoracic aorta (scale bar = 1.0 mm), shown with high-magnification insert (scale bar = 0.1 mm) (A). At both ages, the SHR had increased lumen diameter (B), medial layer thickness (C), and medial thickness-diameter ratio (D), and medial cross-sectional area (E), and these changes further increased with age. Data are shown as mean ± SEM, with n = 8 animals per group. Post-hoc comparisons, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, compared to WKY; # p < 0.05, ## p < 0.01, ### p < 0.001, compared to young.