Abstract 240: Serum Cholesterol and Angiotensin-Induced Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Hypercholesterolemic Mice

• Published in: Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology Vol. 33; no. suppl_1
• Main Authors: Prins, Petra A, Hill, Michael, Airey, David, Nwosu, Sam, Perati, Prudhvidhar R, Abramo, Jason M, Kon, Valentina, Fazio, Sergio, Sampson, Uchechukwu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.05.2013

Abstract only Background Although hyperlipidemia is known to augment the incidence of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in the AngII-induced model of apolipoprotein E -/- mice, its relationship to AAA size is unknown. Therefore, we evaluated the relationship between total cholesterol concentration (T...