Fig. 1 Atherosclerotic arteries harbor distinct immune cell infiltrates in plaques and adventitia. The adventitia of the normal arterial wall (left) constitutively contains vasa vasorum, lymph vessels, tissue macrophages, few…
Mouse number BW (g) Glucose solution volume (μl) to inject Glucose levels (mg/dL) 0 min 15 min 30 min 60 min 120 min 1 2 3 4 5 6 …
Fig. 1 Dissection tools 8. 10 ml syringes. 9. 1.5 ml Eppendorf tubes. 10. Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS): 1.54 mM KH2PO4, 155.17 mM NaCl, 2.70 mM Na2HPO4, pH…
, where [Fluo] i and [Exc] i represent the fluorescence and excitation image for source position i, respectively, and s is a smoothing factor that prevents division by very small…
Fig. 1 Surgical preparation and stabilization of the mouse carotid artery. Numbers indicate the different elements and tissues involved in the procedure. (a) Mice are immobilized in decubitus position, the…
Fig. 1 Schematic drawing of the tandem stenosis. ApoE−/− mice at 6–8 weeks of age are fed with Western diet containing 22 % fat and 0.15 % cholesterol and tap…
Fig. 1 Illustrative example of bone marrow transplantation to generate mixed chimeras in mice. Six- to eight-week-old recipient mice are irradiated with myeloablative doses of radiation. In this example, femurs…
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Fig. 1 The primary cytokines involved in atherosclerosis. In red: atherogenic cytokines. In green: atheroprotective cytokines. In blue: exact role still under investigation Fig. 2 Cytokines in the immune response…
Fig. 1 Overview of image modalities for intravital microscopy. (a) comparison of characteristic image properties (i.e., axial and lateral resolution, acquisition speed, depth penetration multichannel detection, and motion artifact vulnerability)…
