adventitia
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The adventitia ( ) is the outer layer of fibrous connective tissue surrounding an organ.
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Vinony's link graph records 127 inbound references to adventitia, and connects out to renal medulla, collecting duct system and rectum.
It is catalogued under the topic Connective tissue.
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Research
6,203 papers- Promising Adventitia in Atherosclerosis.Current vascular pharmacology · 2025
- The adventitia in arterial development, remodeling, and hypertension.Biochemical pharmacology · 2022
- Adventitia and perivascular cells.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2015
- Immune outposts in the adventitia: One foot in sea and one on shore.Current opinion in immunology · 2020
- The adventitia: essential regulator of vascular wall structure and function.Annual review of physiology · 2013
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The adventitia ( ) is the outer layer of fibrous connective tissue surrounding an organ.
The outer layer of connective tissue that surrounds an artery, or vein – the tunica externa, is also called the tunica adventitia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “adventitia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.