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Measuring Blood Pressure in Mice using Volume Pressure Recording, a Tail-cuff Method
Published on: May 15, 2009
The challenge of measuring blood pressure in low-resource settings
James M Roberts1, Vanessa Assibey-Mensah2
1Magee-Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Department of Clinical and Translational Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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