A review of animal models related to Takayasu arteritis
Takayasu arteritis(TA)is a chronic non-specific inflammatory disease of the aorta,its main bran-ches,and the pulmonary arteries.The etiology of TA is still unclear.In order to study its pathogenesis and conduct in-tervention experiments based on its etiology,relevant animal models need to be established for further research.In the published articles on arteritis-related animal models,estrogen induction,gene knockout,bacterial and viral induction and other schemes have a certain feasibility in modeling TA.