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Quantification of Atherosclerosis in Mice
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[Chronic lathyrism, prolonged hyperlipidic diet, and atheroma in the rat]
Pathologie-Biologie
|May 1, 1976
Abstract:
Deep, constant, extensive atherosclerosis can be experimentally induced on rats that are atheroresistant. Two main factors are involved in this experimentation; parietal alteration following chronic intoxication with BAPN (9 weeks) and a metabolic factor with hyperlipidic diet, but this metabolic damage should be sustained for a long time (40 weeks).
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