Development of a Novel Rabbit Model of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm via a Combination of Periaortic Calcium Chloride and Elastase Incubation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Bi, Yonghua ^a,b   Zhong, Hongshan ^a,c   Xu, Ke ^a,c   Zhang, Zhen ^a,c   Qi, Xun ^a,c   Xia, Yonghui ^a,c   Ren, Ling ^a,c  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; ELASTASE; ELASTIN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA MEDIA; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; RELIABILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTIN; HUMANS; INTUBATION; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84879778278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068476     Document Type: Article

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