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Building vascular roadmaps: A novel toolset for visualizing and annotating whole mouse brain vasculature

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Vasculature has an essential role both in central nervous system health and diseases. A new optimized imaging and analysis pipeline helps to characterize blood vessel network topology and plasticity across large regions in detail.

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Fig. 1: Whole brain vascular imaging and analysis pipeline.

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  1. Department of Physiology and Neuroscience and the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Kassandra Kisler, Mikko T. Huuskonen & Berislav V. Zlokovic

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Kisler, K., Huuskonen, M.T. & Zlokovic, B.V. Building vascular roadmaps: A novel toolset for visualizing and annotating whole mouse brain vasculature. Lab Anim 49, 175–176 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-020-0556-7

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