Monitoring Pulmonary Nodule Progression Using Micro-Computed Tomography and Blood Sampling in a Mouse ModelYing Guo *1,2, Fuhan Fan *2,3, Huan Xu 4, Ting Zhang 2, Peng Yang 5, Sanyin Zhang 2,3, Fengming You 6
1Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2State Key Laboratory of Southwestern Chinese Medicine Resources, Innovative Institute of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy/Academy for Interdisciplinary, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3Research Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 4Chengdu University of CTM, Basic Medical College, 5Chengdu Fifth People's Hospital, 6TCM Regulating Metabolic Diseases Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
This protocol describes an efficient, simple, and minimally invasive method for studying pulmonary nodules. Submaxillary vein blood collection and micro-CT imaging are used as investigative techniques.
