Alfaxalone and Dexmedetomidine as an Alternative to Gas Anesthesia for Micro-CT Lung Imaging in a Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis Murine Model

Quantification of Lung Fibrosis in IPF-Like Mouse Model and Pharmacological Response to Treatment by Micro-Computed Tomography

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Anaesthetic effects of alfaxalone administered intraperitoneally alone or combined with dexmedetomidine and fentanyl in the rat

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A Multimodal Imaging Approach Based on Micro-CT and Fluorescence Molecular Tomography for Longitudinal Assessment of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis in Mice

(2018) Francesca Ruscitti et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Diagnostic criteria for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Fleischner Society White Paper

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Impact of repeated anesthesia with ketamine and xylazine on the well-being of C57BL/6JRj mice

(2018) Katharina Hohlbaum et al.   PLoS One

Alfaxalone–Xylazine Anesthesia in Laboratory Mice (Mus musculus)

(2018) Rebecca L Erickson et al.   Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Severity classification of repeated isoflurane anesthesia in C57BL/6JRj mice—Assessing the degree of distress

(2017) Katharina Hohlbaum et al.   PLoS One

Longitudinal assessment of bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis by Micro-CT correlates with histological evaluation in mice

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Noninvasive Imaging of Experimental Lung Fibrosis

(2015) Yong Zhou et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Longitudinal micro-CT provides biomarkers of lung disease that can be used to assess the effect of therapy in preclinical mouse models, and reveal compensatory changes in lung volume

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Monitoring inflammation and airway remodeling by fluorescence molecular tomography in a chronic asthma model

(2015) Fabio Stellari et al.   Journal of Translational Medicine

Micro-CT of rodents: State-of-the-art and future perspectives

(2014) D.P. Clark et al.   Physica Medica-European Journal of Medical Physics

Anesthesia and Other Considerations for in Vivo Imaging of Small Animals

(2013) I. J. Hildebrandt et al.   ILAR JOURNAL

Mice Anesthesia, Analgesia, and Care, Part I: Anesthetic Considerations in Preclinical Research

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Standardized quantification of pulmonary fibrosis in histological samples

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