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Murine abdominal aortic aneurysm model by orthotopic allograft transplantation of elastase-treated abdominal aorta.
Journal of vascular surgery - 1 Dec 2015
Liu Zhenjie, Wang Qiwei, Ren Jun, Assa Carmel Rebecca, Morgan Stephanie, Giles Jasmine, Han Qi, Liu Bo
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OBJECTIVE: Murine models have proved instrumental in studying various aspects of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), from identification of underlying pathophysiologic changes to the development of novel therapeutic strategies. In the current study, we describe a new model in which an elastase-treated donor aorta is transplanted to a recipient mouse and allowed to progress to aneurysm. We hypothesized that by...
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