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We instrumented ApoE(-/-) mice (n = 7) with a cuff around the left carotid artery and imaged them with micro-CT (39.6 m resolution) eight to nine weeks after cuff placement. Computational fluid dynamics was then performed to compute six metrics that describe different asp …
We instrumented ApoE(-/-) mice (n = 7) with a cuff around the left carotid artery and imaged them with micro-CT (39.6 m resolution) …