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ArticleBiomedical engineering online2017

Correlation between quantitative analysis of wall shear stress and intima-media thickness in atherosclerosis development in carotid arteries.

Bo Zhang, Junyi Gu, Ming Qian, Lili Niu, Hui Zhou, Dhanjoo Ghista

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Article in Biomedical engineering online, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Bo ZhangDepartment of Ultrasound in Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200120, China. zhangbodongfang@qq.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6085-111X
Junyi GuDepartment of Ultrasound in Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200120, China.
Ming QianPaul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Lili NiuPaul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Hui ZhouPaul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Dhanjoo GhistaUniversity 2020 Foundation, Northborough, MA, 01532, USA.

Funding

Academic Leaders Training Program of Pudong Health Bureau of Shanghai PWRd2013-02National Natural Science Foundation of China 81401428National Natural Science Foundation of China 81571693Pudong New Area Committee of Science and Technology PKJ2015-Y17
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis paper presents quantitative analysis of blood flow shear stress by measuring the carotid arterial wall shear stress (WSS) and the intima-media thickness (IMT) of experimental rabbits fed with high-fat feedstuff on a weekly basis in order to cause atherosclerosis.

methodsThis study is based on establishing an atherosclerosis model of high-fat rabbits, and measuring the rabbits' common carotid arterial WSS of the experimental group and control group on a weekly basis. Detailed analysis was performed by using WSS quantification.

resultsWe have demonstrated small significant difference of rabbit carotid artery WSS between the experimental group and the control group (P<0.01) from the 1st week onwards, while the IMT of experimental group had larger differences from 5th week compared with the control group (P<0.05). Next, we have shown that with increasing blood lipids, the rabbit carotid artery shear stress decreases and the rabbit carotid artery IMT goes up. The decrease of shear stress appears before the start of IMT growth. Furthermore, our receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed that when the mean value of shear stress is 1.198 dyne/cm

conclusionsAll these data goes to show that WSS decreasing to 1.198 dyne/cm

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Carotid Intima-Media ThicknessShear StrengthStress, MechanicalAnimalsCarotid ArteriesCarotid Artery DiseasesCholesterolLipoproteins, LDLMaleRabbitsUltrasonographyCholesterolLipoproteins, LDLCarotid arteryFibrous plaquesIntima-media thicknessReceiver operator characteristicWall shear stress

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PMID29208019
PMCPMC5718157

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