Sleeve Gastrectomy in Mice using Surgical ClipsJih-Hua Wei 1,2,3, Che-Hung Yeh 4, Wei-Jei Lee 5, Shing-Jong Lin 3,6,7,8,9, Po-Hsun Huang 3,6,7
1Cardiovascular Division, Internal Medicine Department, Min-Sheng General Hospital, 2Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, School of Healthcare Management, Kai-Nan University, 3Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, 4Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Biotechnology and Bioresources, University of Da-Yeh, 5Department of Surgery, Min-Sheng General Hospital, 6Department of Critical Care Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 7Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 8Division of Cardiology, Heart Center, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, 9Taipei Medical University
The prevalence of diabetes and obesity is continuously increasing worldwide. The mechanisms between diabetes, obesity and their associated mortality and co-morbidities need to be further investigated. Here, we present a protocol for sleeve gastrectomy (SG) in animals as an uncomplicated preclinical model of bariatric surgery.
