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Assessing Murine Resistance Artery Function Using Pressure Myography
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Assessing Murine Resistance Artery Function Using Pressure Myography

Assessing Murine Resistance Artery Function Using Pressure Myography

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07:25 min

June 07, 2013

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07:25 min
June 07, 2013

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In pressure myography, an intact small segment of a vessel is mounted onto two small cannulas and pressurized to a suitable luminal pressure. Here, we describe the method to measure vasorelaxation response of the mouse 3rd order mesenteric arteries in c57 and sGCα1-/- mice using pressure myography.

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