Aortic valve damage for the study of left-sided, native valve infective endocarditis in rabbits

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1396, Issue , 2016, Pages 73-80

  Salgado Pabόn, Wilmara ^a   Schlievert, Patrick M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Aortic valve damage; Carotid catheterization; Native valve endocarditis; Rabbits

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; NONHUMAN; RABBIT MODEL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; AORTIC VALVE; DISEASE MODEL; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RABBITS AND HARES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; RABBITS;

EID: 84950295236     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3344-0_6     Document Type: Chapter

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