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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: Transl Stroke Res. 2011 Mar;2(1):112–127. doi: 10.1007/s12975-010-0044-2

Figure 3.

Figure 3

ACA-MCA anastomoses in C57BL/6J and BALB/c mice at six months of age. (A) C57BL/6J mice show robust interconnections (anastomoses) between the MCA and ACA vessels (indicated by black arrows). (B) BALB/c mice show consistently fewer collaterals. (C) Quantification of the number of collaterals. Both the number of ACA-MCA anastomoses and the total number of anastomoses were significantly decreased in BALB/c mice (* p<0.01 two-tailed heteroscedastic t-test, n=6 C57BL/6J and 5 BALB/c mice).