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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 02:06Rat Mesentary Exteriorization Model
- 04:42Tissue Harvesting and Fixation
- 06:06Tissue Immunolabeling: Colorimetric Labeling
- 07:37Tissue Immunolabeling: Fluorescent Labeling
- 08:27Results: Immunolabeling and Quantitative Analysis of Rat Mesentery Tissues
- 11:35Conclusion
This article describes a simple model for stimulating angiogenesis in the rat mesentery. The model produces dramatic increases in capillary sprouting, vascular area and vascular density over a relatively short time course in a tissue that allows en face visualization of entire microvascular networks down to the single cell level.
