Name: noninvasive intratracheal intubation to study the pathology and physiology of mouse lung
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This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research.

The following protocol describes a noninvasive, simple, and quick method to deliver materials of interest to mouse lungs. This procedure was approved by the National Cancer Institute Animal Care and Use Committee.
1. Anesthesia
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	<li>First, anesthetize the mouse using a mixture of ketamine and xylazine (100 mg/kg body weight and 10 mg/kg body weight, respectively). This is the ACUC recommended anesthesia and dose. With this amount, mice are unconscious at least for ~20 min.</li>
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Intratracheal intubation described here is a simple, yet excellent noninvasive method to evenly deliver materials of interest to mouse lung. This method allows study of the effect and/or role of the material administered on the physiology and/or pathology of lung. The materials administered can be endogenous molecules such as cytokines, or exogenous materials such as xenobiotic chemicals/drugs, carcinogens, pollutants, allergens, or viruses that result in various lung conditions that may represent a model for studying va...

Lung is an organ where many devastating diseases are commonly diagnosed. Among them, lung cancer is the second-most diagnosed cancer in both men and women, and the most common cause of cancer death. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also known as emphysema and chronic bronchitis, is a very serious disease and the third leading cause of death in the United States. In 2011, it was estimated that 25.9 million Americans had asthma, including 7.1 million children under the age of 18. Asthma is the third leading cause of hospitalization among children under the age of 15 (American Lung Association, <a href="http://www.lung.org" target="_blank">http://www.lung.org</a>). In order to study the pathophysiology and/or etiology of these devastating diseases and their underlying mechanisms, the use of accurate models is critical in conjunction with convenient and noninvasive administration of various materials of interest to lung. Mice provide one of the best models to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathology and physiology of lung diseases because of the increasing availability of knockout and transgenic mice and a vast amount of available genetic information.
Various methods have been used by a number of investigators in different settings to deliver materials of interest to mouse lungs, including inhalation, intranasal instillation, intratracheal instillation, and intratracheal intubation1-4. The latter procedure has not been routinely used because it is considered rather difficult to perform. Intratracheal intubation described herein is a noninvasive, simple, and quick method to deliver materials of interest to mouse lungs in order to study the effect of the delivered materials on gene expression patterns, pathology and/or physiology of lung5. This technique assures the delivery of exogenous materials to a whole lung and does not involve any survival surgery&#160;and thus will likely be approved by any institutional animal care and use committees.

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			<td>KetaVed</td>
			<td>Vedco</td>
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			<td>Ketamine</td>
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			<td>AnaSed Injection 20 mg</td>
			<td>LLOYD</td>
			<td></td>
			<td>Xylazine</td>
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			<td>BioLite Stand</td>
			<td>Braintree Scientific</td>
			<td>RIS100</td>
			<td>For mice</td>
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			<td>BioLite Intubation Illumination System</td>
			<td>Braintree Scientific</td>
			<td>BIO MI-KIT</td>
			<td>For mice</td>
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			<td>22 G, 1 inch i.v. catheter</td>
			<td>Terumo</td>
			<td>SR-OX2225CA</td>
			<td>For mice below 30 g.&#160;Catheter is used only for the case where the Intubation Illumination System is not used.</td>
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			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td>or</td>
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			<td>20 G, 1 inch i.v. catheter</td>
			<td>Terumo</td>
			<td>SR-OX2025CA</td>
			<td>For mice over 30 g.&#160;Catheter is used only for the case where the Intubation Illumination System is not used.</td>
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			<td></td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Catheter is used only for the case where the Intubation Illumination System is not used</td>
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noninvasive intratracheal intubation to study the pathology and physiology of mouse lung

The use of a model that mimics the condition of lung diseases in humans is critical for studying the pathophysiology and/or etiology of a particular disease and for developing therapeutic intervention. With the increasing availability of knockout and transgenic derivatives, together with a vast amount of genetic information, mice provide one of the best models to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathology and physiology of lung diseases. Inhalation, intranasal instillation, intratracheal instillation, and intratracheal intubation are the most widely used techniques by a number of investigators to administer materials of interest to mouse lungs. There are pros and cons for each technique depending on the goals of a study. Here a noninvasive intratracheal intubation method that can directly deliver exogenous materials to mouse lungs is presented. This technique was applied to administer bleomycin to mouse lungs as a model to study pulmonary fibrosis.

Initially, green-dyed solution was used to intubate mice for practice. The lung was resected immediately after intubation to examine how evenly the color was distributed in the lung (Figure 2). This technique was applied to study bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis using C57BL/6 mice. When the mice were intratracheally intubated with 1.2 U/kg of bleomycin or saline as control and necropsied 3 weeks later, the mice developed bleomycin-induced fibrosis throughout their lungs, supported by histology and th...

Watch this Scientific Journal Video about Noninvasive Intratracheal Intubation to Study the Pathology and Physiology of Mouse Lung at JoVE.com

Noninvasive Intratracheal Intubation to Study the Pathology and Physiology of Mouse Lung

The use of a model that mimics the condition of lung diseases in humans is critical for studying the pathophysiology and/or etiology of a particular disease and for developing therapeutic intervention. Here a noninvasive intratracheal intubation method that can directly deliver exogenous materials to mouse lungs is presented.

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