A Murine Model of Femoral Artery Injury: Tricks of the Trade
A Murine Model of Femoral Artery Injury: Tricks of the Trade
Jixue Hou1,2, Xueling Chen3, Jing Wang4, Hongwei Zhang2, Yu Xi2, Jie Xia2, Xinyu Peng2,* and Xiangwei Wu2,5*
Wire making. A, a diameter of 0.02 mm of ordinary steel wire; B, making the wire bent.
Wire Injury Procedure. A, the common femoral artery, the superficial femoral artery and the deep femoral (yellow arrows); B, the wire is inserted via the deep femoral artery (long arrow), the deep femoral (short arrow) and the superficial femoral artery (dotted arrow).
Hematoxylin-eosin staining of wire-injured and uninjured femoral arteries