In vivo echocardiographic detection of cardiovascular lesions in apolipoprotein E-knockout mice using a novel high-frequency high-speed echocardiography technique

Circulation Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 272-276

  Hisao, Onozuka ^a   Satoshi, Fujii ^a   Taisei, Mikami ^b   Satoshi, Yamada ^a   Naoki, Ishimori ^a   Toshihiro, Shimizu ^a   Tomoo, Furumoto ^a   Yukihito, Nakai ^a   Kaoru, Komuro ^a   Keiko, Nishihara ^a   Hiroshi, Okamoto ^a   Akira, Kitabatake ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ApoE KO mouse; Atherosclerosis; Echocardiography; Gene

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ROOT; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; GEOMETRY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; AORTA; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AORTA; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

EID: 0036240367     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.66.272     Document Type: Article

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