Three-Dimensional Microstructural Changes in Murine Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Quantified Using Immunofluorescent Array Tomography

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-109

  Saatchi, Sanaz ^a   Azuma, Junya ^b   Wanchoo, Nishey ^a   Smith, Stephen J ^c   Yock, Paul G ^a   Taylor, Charles A ^a   Tsao, Philip S ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysm; collagen; elastase; elastin; immunofluorescence microscopy; infrarenal aorta; quantitative image analysis; smooth muscle cells; three dimensional microstructure

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; ELASTASE; ELASTIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA MEDIA; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENT ARRAY TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE PERFUSION; ULTRAMICROTOMY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859241658     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/0022155411433066     Document Type: Review

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