Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipidemic (WHHL) rabbits are an important animal model used to study the effects of defective low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors on lipoprotein metabolism. In the present study, the receptor-mediated catabolism of apolipoprotein (apo) E-containing lipoproteins was investigated in fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells cultured from WHHL rabbits. Fibroblasts from WHHL r...

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1998) 22(2): 149-159 ©New Zealand Ecological Society behaviour (Norbury, Norbury and Heyward, 1998), we monitored the behaviour of 62 radio-collared ferrets and 25 radio-collared cats in dry, tussock grassland in the South Island of New Zealand. The results reported here are from data either gathered in the absence of rabbit control, or from areas in which partia...

INTRODUCTION: Avascular necrosis of the femoral head (FHN) is a common complication with disabling effect for young patients after high dose corticosteroid treatment [1]. Recently, we could show that steroids have a vasoconstrictive effect on lateral epiphyseal arteries of the femoral head (FH) which could lead to FH ischemia and subsequent necrosis [2]. In the current study we investigated the...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to quantify the meniscal root anatomy of the New Zealand white rabbit to better understand this animal model for future in vitro and in vivo joint degeneration studies. METHODS Ten non-paired fresh frozen New Zealand white rabbit knee stifle joints were carefully disarticulated for this study. Measurements were made for all bony landmarks and ligamento...

background: a precise understanding of the mechanism of human neointimal stenoses and atherosclerotic fibrous plaques , which give rise to thromboses in vital arteries, requires a suitable animal model that would mimic the same characteristics well. we developed a rabbit model of neointimal stenosis and fibrotic plaque rupture in the carotid artery to visualize the lesion progress and to charac...

Abstract To evaluate the safety of stent malapposition corrodible nitride iron as biodegradable cardiovascular implants, a total 108 stents were implanted into abdominal aortas, iliac arteries, and artery bifurcations 36 New Zealand white rabbits separately. Each rabbit was with three stents. After follow-up period 3 months, no thrombus embolism found in local downstream vessels. And other adve...