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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2017 Jun 21;60:124–133. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.06.013

Figure 1. Schematics illustrating the twisting of rat carotid artery in vivo.

Figure 1

Top: location and dimension of the twisting segment. Bottom: surgical procedure: a) rigid semi-circular tubular sheath to support twisting; b) artery segment selected with 4 sutures attached to adventitia (2 at two sides of the vessel at the proximal and distal ends, respectively; c) Two sutures at the proximal end were sewn onto the sheath. d) The two sutures at the distal end were first swapped position to rotate (twist) the vessel 180° along its axis, and then sewn onto the sheath to hold the twist in the artery segment.