Obesity and insulin resistance (IR) are well-studied risk factors for systemic cardiovascular disease, but their impact on pulmonary hypertension (PH) is not well clarified. This study aims to investigate if diet-induced obesity induces PH and if …

Detection and removal of bladder cancer lesions at an early stage is crucial for preventing tumor relapse and progression. This study aimed to develop a new technological platform for the visualization of small and flat urothelial lesions of high-grade …

Purpose of Review: The use of high-frequency ultrasound has increased dramatically in musculoskeletal and neuromuscular applications in recent years. This article reviews more recent innovation in high-frequency ultrasound and the relative value of use in …

Deficiency in DDR1 Induces Pulmonary Hypertension and Impaired Alveolar Development …

This study reports a new methodology for right heart imaging by ultrasound in mice under right ventricular (RV) pressure overload. Pulmonary artery constriction (PAC) or sham surgeries were performed on C57BL/6 male mice at 8 weeks of age. Ultrasound …

Background: Intrathecal injections provide important access to the central nervous system for delivery of anes- thetic, analgesic or chemotherapeutic drugs that do not otherwise cross the blood-brain barrier. The adminis- tration of drugs via this route …

Background: Venous thrombosis (VT) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in clinical medicine. Animal models studying venous thrombosis are scarce and, in most cases, very crude and rely on sacrificing the animals to excise formed thrombi. …

Right ventricular (RV) strain measurements from ultrasound via speckle-tracking techniques are being used more frequently as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for a variety of cardiopulmonary pathologies. However, despite the clinical utility of ultrasound …

We sought to unravel pathomechanisms of the transition of maladaptive right ventricular (RV) remodeling to right heart failure (RHF) upon pressure overload. Exposure of C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N mice to pulmonary artery banding disclosed a tight relation of …

BACKGROUND: To date, assessment of right ventricular (RV) function in mice has relied extensively on invasive measurements. Echocardiographic advances have allowed adaptation of measures used in humans for serial, noninvasive RV functional assessment in …