Author(s): Kristie Huda, Dylan J. Lawrence, Weylan Thompson, Sarah H. Lindsey & Carolyn L. Bayer ABSTRACT Altered vasoactivity is a major characteristic of cardiovascular and oncological diseases, and many therapies are therefore targeted to the vasculature. Therapeutics which are selective for the diseased vasculature are ideal, but whole-body selectivity of a therapeutic is challenging to assess […]
Tag: fetal cardiac development
Investigating the Impact of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Fetal Cardiac Development Using Photoacoustic Tomography
Author(s): M. F. Tanvir, H. Yang, J. D. Gardner, and H. Jiang ABSTRACT Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) is a leading cause of developmental abnormalities, yet its effects on fetal cardiac development remain understudied. We employed real-time, label-freemultispectral photoacoustic tomography (PAT) to noninvasively assess cardiac development in mouse fetuses exposed to chronic alcohol. Using a custom-built […]
