ad·ven·ti·tia

(ăd′vĕn-tĭsh′ə, -vən-)

The membranous outer covering of an organ or a blood vessel.

[New Latin, from Latin adventīcius, foreign; see adventitious.]

ad′ven·ti′tial adj.

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adventitial

(ˌædvɛnˈtɪʃəl)

adj

of or relating to the adventitia

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Moreover, the human vascular adventitial fibroblasts from pulmonary arteries, were cultured in appropriate media and showed osteogenic, adipogenic and myogenic differentiation (13).

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The role is in part related to their presence as adventitial reticular cells that participate in normal wound repair and in regulation of hematopoietic cells in bone marrow [31].

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It is widely known that advancing age is an important risk factor for BRVO since the main pathogenic mechanism of BRVO is arterial stiffness that causes venous compression in the common adventitial sheath [2, 47].

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Cystic adventitial disease (CAD) is rare vascular disorder in which a mucinous cystic formation in the adventitial layer of artery disturbs the arterial blood flow and causes intermittent claudication in young-adult patient.

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The adventitial tissue is dissected until the vessels are separated.

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During development, one or few of these cells lose their ability to produce or secrete platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) and transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF a1), (Marx) which are required to recruit adventitial cells around developing vessels.

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