Experimental Diet-Induced Atherosclerosis in Quaker Parrots (Myiopsitta monachus)

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1116-1126

  Beaufrere H ^a   Nevarez, J G ^a   Wakamatsu, N ^a   Clubb, S ^b   Cray, C ^c   Tully, T N ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rainforest Clinic for Birds and Exotics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

animal model of atherosclerosis; avian atherosclerosis; avian cardiology; psittacine atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; AORTA; ATHEROGENIC DIET; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIRD DISEASES; BLOOD; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PARROT; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIRD DISEASES; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; CHOLESTEROL; DIET, ATHEROGENIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LIPIDS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; PARROTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84887520813     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: 15442217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0300985813488958     Document Type: Article

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