Use of Intravital Microscopy to Study the Microvascular Behavior of Microbubble-Based Ultrasound Contrast Agents

Microcirculation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 245-259

  Schneider, Michel ^a   Broillet, Anne ^a   Tardy, Isabelle ^a   Pochon, Sibylle ^a   Bussat, Philippe ^a   Bettinger, Thierry ^a   Helbert, Alexandre ^a   Costa, Maria ^a   Tranquart, François ^a  

^a Bracco Suisse SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BR14; BR55; Cremaster muscle; Dorsal skin fold chamber; Hamster cheek pouch; Intravital microscopy; Liver; Microbubble; Microcirculation; Mouse; P selectin; Rat; SonoVue ; Spinotrapezius muscle

Indexed keywords

BR 14; BR 55; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; P SELECTIN TARGETED MICROBUBBLE; SONOVUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEEK POUCH; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREMASTER MUSCLE; DRUG BINDING; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; INTRAVITAL MICROSCOPY; KUPFFER CELL; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LIVER; MALE; MESENTERY; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKINFOLD; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALS; CHEEK; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRICETINAE; FLUOROCARBONS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LIVER CIRCULATION; MICE; MICROBUBBLES; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLES; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RATS; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

CRICETINAE; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84859142311     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2011.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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