Evaluation of postnatal arteriogenesis and angiogenesis in a mouse model of hind-limb ischemia

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1737-1748

  Limbourg, Anne ^a   Korff, Thomas ^b   Napp, L Christian ^a   Schaper, Wolfgang ^c   Drexler, Helmut ^a   Limbourg, Florian P ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMORAL ARTERY; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOOT; ISCHEMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MICE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PERFUSION IMAGING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 74949098819     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.185     Document Type: Article

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