Characterisation of atherosclerotic lesions with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of wet tissue

Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-47

  Kamari, Yehuda ^a,b   Cohen, Hofit ^a,b   Shaish, Aviv ^a,b   Bitzur, Rafael ^a,b   Afek, Arnon ^a,b   Shen, Shlomzion ^c   Vainshtein, Anya ^c   Harats, Dror ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c QuantomiX Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apo E deficient mice; Atherosclerotic lesions; Electron microscopy; Foam cells; Immunogold labelling; Lipid deposition

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GOLD; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FOAM CELL; IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AORTA; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITOPES; FEMALE; FOAM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR;

EID: 41949101852     PISSN: 14791641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3132/dvdr.2008.008     Document Type: Article

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