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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2011;709:91–104. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61737-982-6_6

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Surgical isolation of trachea, carotid artery, and external jugular vein during left ventricular catheterization assay. (a) A photograph of the mouse neck under a stereoscopic dissection microscope following internal carotid artery isolation. Arrowhead, the internal carotid artery; arrow, the external jugular vein; asterisk, trachea. (b) A photograph of the mouse neck under a stereoscopic dissection microscope after PV catheter insertion and external jugular vein cannulation. Arrowhead, the PV catheter in the internal carotid artery; arrow, the 30G needle cannulating the external jugular vein; asterisk, trachea.