Validation of the murine aortic arch as a model to study human vascular diseases

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 216, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 563-571

  Casteleyn, Christophe ^a   Trachet, Bram ^a   Van Loo, Denis ^a   Devos, Daniel G H ^b   Van den Broeck, Wim ^a   Simoens, Paul ^a   Cornillie, Pieter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aorta; Geometrical analysis; Man; Medical imaging; Micro computer tomography; Mouse; Vascular disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACIC AORTA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 77953165166     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2010.01220.x     Document Type: Article

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