Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Medicine
Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging of Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue
Xueli Zhang 1,2, Chaincy Kuo 3, Anna Moore 1, Chongzhao Ran 1
1Molecular Imaging Laboratory, MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 2Center for Drug Discovery, School of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, 3Perkin Elmer
In this video report, we show the application of Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI) for interscapular brown adipose tissue in mice under activated and depressed conditions.
Bioengineering
TAPE: A Biodegradable Hemostatic Glue Inspired by a Ubiquitous Compound in Plants for Surgical Application
Keumyeon Kim 1, Haeshin Lee 1,2, Seonki Hong 2,3
1The Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 3Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
We describe the simplest protocol to prepare biodegradable medical glue that has an effective hemostatic ability. TAPE is a water-immiscible supramolecular aggregate prepared by mixing of tannic acid, a ubiquitous compound found in plants, and poly(ethylene) glycol, yielding a 2.5 times greater water-resistant adhesion compared with commercial fibrin glue.
