An Intact Pericardium Ischemic Rodent ModelAli Fatehi Hassanabad 1, Darrell D. Belke 1, Jeannine Turnbull 1, Jameson A. Dundas 1, Vishnu Vasanthan 1, Guoqi Teng 1, Paul W. M. Fedak 1, Justin F. Deniset 1,2
1Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiac Sciences, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, 2Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Calgary
This protocol outlines the steps for inducing myocardial infarction in mice while preserving the pericardium and its contents.