Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 15th, 2006
Study 1: Estrogen replacement effectively improves the accelerated intimal hyperplasia following balloon injury of the carotid artery in ovariectomized rats.
According to the report from Japan, "Present experiments were designed to investigate the effects of ovariectomy (OVX) and estrogen replacement (ER) on neointimal formation after balloon injury of the rat carotid artery."
T. Ishibahshi and colleagues at the Tokyo Medical & Dental University explained, "Young adult female rats were divided into 3 groups of sham operation (control),...
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