At a time of growing concern over the ethics of animal experimentation, mouse models are still an indispensable source of insight into the cardiovascular system and its most frequent pathologies. Nevertheless, reference data on the murine cardiovascular an ...
Objective To understand the anatomy and physiology of ascending aortic aneurysms in angiotensin II-infused ApoE(-/-) mice. Approach and Results We combined an extensive in vivo imaging protocol (high-frequency ultrasound and contrast-enhanced microcomputed ...