The Representative Porcine Model for Human Cardiovascular Disease
Figure 7
Histological examinations of pig experiments. Elastic-van Gieson (a, b) and Von kossa (c, d) stained CTO segment of coronary arteries. Arrows in (c) and (d) indicate microcalcification. Ex vivo micro-CT confirms that CTO lesions contain calcification in LAD (red circle) [51].