Quantitative CT imaging of the spatio-temporal distribution patterns of vasa vasorum in aortas of apoE-/-/LDL-/- double knockout mice

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 444-450

  Kampschulte, M ^a   Brinkmann, A ^a   Stieger, P ^a   Sedding, D G ^a   Dierkes, C ^a   Bohle, R M ^c   Krombach, G ^a   Ritman, Erik L ^b   Langheinrich, A C ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Imaging; Micro CT; Nano CT; Vasa vasorum

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CONTRAST MEDIUM; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLEEDING; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; FIBROSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFUSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; VASA VASORUM;

ANIMALS; AORTA; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 77957695802     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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