“…This can be performed by a suture-banding (pulmonary artery banding, PAB) or a vascular clip around the pulmonary artery. PAB has been performed in several animal species, and cardiac dimensions and function have been studied in various ways, such as histology, transthoracic echocardiography (including speckle tracking), and heart catheterization 2,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40 . PAB in small rodents, such as mice, is challenging.…”