Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Human Internal Mammary Artery (IMA) Transplantation and Stenting: A Human Model to Study the Development of In-Stent Restenosis

Xiaoqin Hua^1,2, Tobias Deuse^1,2, Evangelos D. Michelakis³, Alois Haromy³, Phil S. Tsao⁴, Lars Maegdefessel⁴, Reinhold G. Erben⁵, Claudia Bergow⁵, Boris B. Behnisch⁶, Hermann Reichenspurner^1,2, Robert C. Robbins⁷, Sonja Schrepfer^1,2,7

¹University Heart Center Hamburg, TSI-Lab, Germany, ²Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Hamburg, ³Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, University of Alberta, ⁴Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine , ⁵Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Biophysics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, ⁶Translumina GmbH, Hechingen, ⁷Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine

This video shows a model to study the development of intimal hyperplasia after stent deployment using a human vessel (IMA) in an immunodeficient rat model.

Medicine

Inducing Myointimal Hyperplasia Versus Atherosclerosis in Mice: An Introduction of Two Valid Models

Mandy Stubbendorff^*1,2, Xiaoqin Hua^*1,2, Tobias Deuse^1,2,3, Ziad Ali^4,5, Hermann Reichenspurner^2,3, Lars Maegdefessel⁶, Robert C. Robbins⁷, Sonja Schrepfer^1,2,3,4

¹Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology Lab, Cardiovascular Research Center, University Hospital Hamburg, ²Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) and DZHK University Hamburg, ³Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, ⁴Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University, ⁵Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, ⁶Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, ⁷Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center

This video shows two models of intimal plaque development in murine arteries and emphasizes the differences in myointimal hyperplasia and atherosclerosis.