Figure 2. Atherosclerosis lesion analysis of whole aorta.
Removal of perivascular adipose tissue from freshly isolated aorta and trimming of branching arteries under the dissection microscope (left, middle left). Longitudinally split and pinned whole aorta before en-face staining (middle right). Enumeration of total aorta surface area and plaque surface area for morphometric analysis of Sudan-IV-stained whole aorta (right).
