Sonographic assessment of atherosclerotic and hypercholesterolemic artery using the echo-tracking technique in an animal model

Vascular

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 178-184

  Wen, Chaoyang ^a   Zhang, Lihai ^a   Wang, Yuexiang ^a   Cheng, Zhigang ^a   Lin, Qian ^a   Wang, Zhili ^a   Tang, Jie ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Artery stiffness; Atherosclerosis; Echo tracking; Elastic modulus; Hypercholesterolemia; Rabbit; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPLIANCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTIC MODULUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952487733     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6670.2010.00006     Document Type: Article

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