Angiotensin II infusion into ApoE-/- mice: A model for aortic dissection rather than abdominal aortic aneurysm?

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1230-1242

  Trachet, Bram ^a,b   Aslanidou, Lydia ^b   Piersigilli, Alessandra ^c   Fraga Silva, Rodrigo A ^b   Sordet Dessimoz, Jessica ^b   Villanueva Perez, Pablo ^d   Stampanoni, Marco F M ^d,e   Stergiopulos, Nikolaos ^b   Segers, Patrick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II infused mice; Aortic aneurysm; Aortic dissection; Mouse models; Phase contrast X ray tomographic microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN II; APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; AORTIC DISSECTION; AORTIC WALL; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CELIAC ARTERY; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTING AORTIC ANEURYSM; ECHOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; HEMATOMA; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; AORTOGRAPHY; APOLIPOPROTEIN E KNOCKOUT MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULSED DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TIME FACTOR; VASCULAR REMODELING;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEMATOMA; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT, APOE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VASCULAR REMODELING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85031810674     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvx128     Document Type: Article

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