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Pathological Dilatation

Known as: Dilatations, Pathologic, ECTASIA, Dilatation, Pathologic 
A pathophysiological process characterized by the dilatation or expansion of a hollow, tubular tissue or organ.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Cardiovascular , Pulmonary and Renal Pathology CCR 5 Signaling Suppresses Inflammation and Reduces Adverse Remodeling of the Infarcted Heart , Mediating Recruitment of Regulatory T Cells
Myocardial infarction triggers an inflammatory reaction that is involved in cardiac remodeling. Cardiac repair is dependent on… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Differential roles of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1 beta in lipopolysaccharide-induced brain injury in the neonatal rat.
Increasing data provide support for the hypothesis that inflammatory cytokines mediate inflammation-induced injury to developing… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Preoperative galactography increases the diagnostic yield of major duct excision for nipple discharge
Although most nipple discharge is due to a benign etiology, approximately 10‐15% is due to breast carcinoma. The standard… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Prognostic importance of scintigraphic left ventricular cavity dilation during intravenous dipyridamole technetium-99m sestamibi myocardial tomographic imaging in predicting coronary events.
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Reduced basal NO-mediated dilation and decreased endothelial NO-synthase expression in coronary vessels of spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Basal vasomotor tone in coronary vessels is, in part, maintained by nitric oxide (NO) production by endothelial constitutive NO… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Growth cone dynamics during the migration of an identified commissural growth cone
We have used time-lapse video microscopy to study the behavior of a neuron, Q1, that pioneers the posterior commissure of the… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Initial report of the National Registry of Elective Cardiopulmonary Bypass Supported Coronary Angioplasty.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Endothelium-dependent L-Arg- and L-NMMA-sensitive mechanisms regulate tone of brain microvessels.
Pial arterioles on the surface of the mouse brain were observed via television microscopy and measured with an image-splitting… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Coronary dilation with standard dose dipyridamole and dipyridamole combined with handgrip.
Intravenous dipyridamole is widely used to produce coronary vasodilation during cardiac imaging procedures. However, the… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Postmortem and intraoperative balloon valvuloplasty of calcific aortic stenosis in elderly patients: mechanisms of successful dilation.
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