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Das folgende Protokoll beschreibt eine nicht-invasive, einfache und schnelle Methode, um Materialien von Interesse Mauslungen zu liefern. Dieses Verfahren wurde von der National Cancer Institute Animal Care und Verwenden Committee genehmigt. 1. Anästhesie <ol><li> Zuerst betäuben die Maus mit einem Gemisch aus Ketamin und Xylazin (100 mg / kg Körpergewicht und 10 mg / kg Körpergewicht, jeweils). Dies ist die empfohlene ACUC Anästhesie und Dosis. Mit diesem Betrag sind Mäuse zumindest für ~ 20 min bewusstlos. </li><li> Bewerben Tierarzt Salbe auf die Augen der Maus, um ein Austrocknen der Augen während der Narkose zu vermeiden. </li><li> Nach einigen Minuten kneifen einen Fuß von der Maus, um für das Bewusstsein zu überprüfen. Nach der Bestätigung bewusstlos, legen Sie die Maus auf eine Intubation Stand auf ~ 60 ° abgewinkelt und halten Sie sie durch Einhaken seine oberen Schneidezähne in einem kleinen Gummiband an der Spitze der Stand entfernt. </li></ol> 2. Intratracheale Intubation </p&gt; <ol><li> Der Maus die Zunge vorsichtig zurückziehen, um eine Seite mit einem Q-Tip. </li><li> Bei Verwendung der BioLite Intubation Lichtanlage, sorgfältig legen Sie die Intubation System, bis der Kehlkopf wird mit Hilfe der faseroptischen Lichtleiter visualisiert. </li><li> Sobald der Kehldeckel und die Stellknorpel visualisiert werden, legen Sie die Faser über dem Kehldeckel und zwischen den Stellknorpel und vorab, bis die richtige Länge der Katheter eingeführt worden ist. </li></ol> Hinweis: Um die richtige Länge der Katheter eingeführt werden erhalten, zunächst die Länge zwischen der Mündung und der Bronchien Bifurkationspunkt messen mit Hilfe eines Maus-Praxis von ähnlicher Größe im Voraus (Abbildung 1). Die Länge hängt weitgehend von der Größe der Maus. Einführen des Katheters sollte über dem Verzweigungspunkt zu stoppen (~ 1,5 cm für Maus mit ~ 25 g Körpergewicht). Dies stellt sicher, dass die intubiert Material wird allen Lappen gehen. Mindestens 50 Praxis micE kann für eine Person, die die Intubation Kenntnisse in der Technik benötigt werden (Kompetente bedeutet, dass die Erfolgsrate der Intubation ist mehr als 95%). <ol start="4"><li> Sobald der Katheter eingeführt wird, schnell zu entfernen, die Glasfaser-Lichtleiter aus dem Katheter, damit das Tier, normal zu atmen. Wenn die Intubation Illumination System nicht verwendet wird, direkt einen Katheter, wie beschrieben. </li><li> In einer Lösung, die Materialien von Interesse mit einem Katheter. Stellen Sie sicher, daß die Lösung unmittelbar nach der Zugabe in die Lunge eingesaugt. Fünfzig Mikroliter für ~ 25 g Körpergewicht der Maus wird routinemäßig eingesetzt. </li></ol> 3. Tierrettung <ol><li> Sobald die Lösung in die Lunge gesaugt wird, nehmen Sie die Maus aus dem Stand, und steckte es wieder in die ursprüngliche Käfig. </li><li> Beachten Sie die Maus, bis es beginnt sich zu bewegen. </li><li> Nach der Bestätigung, dass die Maus in gutem Zustand ist, bringen Sie den Käfig auf einem Rack. </li></ol>

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Hier beschriebenen Intratracheale Intubation ist eine einfache, aber hervorragende nicht-invasive Methode, um gleichmäßig zu liefern Materialien von Interesse Mauslunge. Dieses Verfahren erlaubt die Untersuchung der Wirkung und / oder die Rolle des Materials auf die Physiologie und / oder der Pathologie der Lunge verabreicht. Die verabreichten Materialien können endogene Moleküle wie Zytokine oder exogene Materialien wie xenobiotischen Chemikalien / Arzneimittel, Karzinogene, Schadstoffen, Allergenen oder Viren, die...

Lung ist ein Organ, in dem viele verheerendsten Krankheiten werden häufig diagnostiziert. Unter ihnen ist Lungenkrebs die zweithäufigste Krebserkrankung bei Männern und Frauen und die häufigste Todesursache durch Krebs. Chronisch obstruktive Lungenerkrankung, die auch als Emphysem und chronische Bronchitis bekannt, ist eine sehr ernste Erkrankung und die dritthäufigste Todesursache in den Vereinigten Staaten. Im Jahr 2011 wurde geschätzt, dass 25,9 Millionen Amerikaner hatten Asthma, darunter 7,1 Millionen Kinder unter 18 Jahren. Asthma ist die dritthäufigste Ursache für Krankenhausaufenthalte von Kindern unter 15 Jahren (American Lung Association, <a href="http://www.lung.org" target="_blank">http://www.lung.org</a> ). Um die Pathophysiologie und / oder Ätiologie dieser verheerenden Krankheiten und ihre zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen zu untersuchen, ist die Verwendung von kritischen genaue Modelle in Verbindung mit praktischen und nicht-invasive Verabreichung von verschiedenen Materialien von Interesse Lunge. Mäuse bieten eine der besten Modelle aufuntersuchen die molekularen Mechanismen, die Pathologie und Physiologie der Lungenkrankheiten wegen der zunehmenden Verfügbarkeit von Knockout und transgenen Mäusen und eine große Menge an verfügbaren genetischen Informationen zugrunde liegen. Verschiedene Verfahren sind durch eine Anzahl von Forschern in verschiedenen Einstellungen verwendet worden, um Materialien von Interesse Mäuselungen, einschließlich Inhalation, intranasale Instillation, intratrachealer Instillation und intratracheale Intubation 1-4 liefern. Das letztere Verfahren wurde nicht routinemäßig verwendet, weil es als eher schwierig durchzuführen. Hier beschriebenen Intratracheale Intubation ist eine nichtinvasive, einfache und schnelle Methode, um Materialien von Interesse Maus Lungen, um die Wirkung der gelieferten Materialien auf Genexpressionsmuster, Pathologie und / oder Physiologie der Lunge 5 studieren zu liefern. Diese Technik gewährleistet die Bereitstellung von exogenen Materialien, die gesamte Lunge und ist nicht mit einer Überlebens Operation und wird daher likely durch irgendwelche institutionellen Tierpflege und Verwendung Ausschüssen genehmigt werden.

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noninvasive intratracheal intubation to study the pathology and physiology of mouse lung

Die Verwendung eines Modells, das den Zustand von Lungenerkrankungen in Menschen nachahmt, ist für die Untersuchung der Pathophysiologie und / oder Ätiologie von bestimmten Krankheiten und für die Entwicklung von therapeutischen Eingriff. Mit der zunehmenden Verfügbarkeit von Knockout und transgenen Derivate, zusammen mit einer großen Menge an genetischer Information, Mäuse bieten eine der besten Modelle, um die molekularen Mechanismen, die Pathologie und Physiologie der Lungenerkrankungen zugrunde liegenden studieren. Inhalation, intranasale Instillation, intratrachealer Instillation und intratracheale Intubation sind die am häufigsten verwendeten Techniken, die von einer Reihe von Forschern auf Materialien von Interesse Mauslungen verabreichen. Es gibt Vor-und Nachteile für jede Technik je nach den Zielen einer Studie. Hier eine nicht-invasive Methode, die intratracheale Intubation direkt liefern kann exogene Materialien Maus Lunge wird vorgestellt. Diese Technik wurde angewandt, um Bleomycin Maus Lunge als Modell zur Lungenfibrose untersuchen zu verwalten. &lt;/ P&gt;

Zunächst wurde grün gefärbt Lösung verwendet, um Mäuse für die Praxis zu intubieren. Die Lunge wurde unmittelbar nach Intubation reseziert zu prüfen, wie gleichmäßig die Farbe wurde in der Lunge (Fig. 2) verteilt. Diese Technik wurde angewandt, um Bleomycin-induzierten Lungenfibrose Studie mit C57BL / 6 Mäusen. Wenn die Mäuse wurden intratracheal mit 1,2 U / kg von Bleomycin oder Kochsalzlösung als Kontrolle und seziert nach 3 Wochen intubiert, entwickelt die Mäuse Bleomycin-induzierten Lun...

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

Die Verwendung eines Modells, das den Zustand von Lungenerkrankungen in Menschen nachahmt, ist für die Untersuchung der Pathophysiologie und / oder Ätiologie von bestimmten Krankheiten und für die Entwicklung von therapeutischen Eingriff. Hier eine nicht-invasive Methode, die intratracheale Intubation direkt liefern kann exogene Materialien Maus Lunge wird vorgestellt.

Nichtinvasive Intratracheale Intubation, die Pathologie und Physiologie der Maus Lung Study

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24.4K Aufrufe.  National Institutes of Health.  Die Verwendung eines Modells, das den Zustand von Lungenerkrankungen in Menschen nachahmt, ist für die Untersuchung der Pathophysiologie und / oder Ätiologie von bestimmten Krankheiten und für die Entwicklung von therapeutischen Eingriff. Hier eine nicht-invasive Methode, die intratracheale Intubation direkt liefern kann exogene Materialien Maus Lunge wird vorgestellt. 

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A Simple Method of Mouse Lung Intubation

A simple procedure to intubate mice for pulmonary function measurements would have several advantages in longitudinal studies with limited numbers or expensive animal. One of the reasons that this is not done more routinely is that it is relatively difficult, despite there being several published studies that describe ways to achieve it. In this paper we demonstrate a procedure that eliminates one of the major hurdles associated with this intubation, that of visualizing the trachea during the entire time of intubation. The approach uses a 0.5 mm fiberoptic light source that serves as an introducer to direct the intubation cannula into the mouse trachea. We show that it is possible to use this procedure to measure lung mechanics in individual mice over a time course of at least several weeks. The technique can be set up with relatively little expense and expertise, and it can be routinely accomplished with relatively little training. This should make it possible for any laboratory to routinely carry out this intubation, thereby allowing longitudinal studies in individual mice, thereby minimizing the number of mice needed and increasing the statistical power by using each mouse as its own control.

This paper describes a striaghforward and efficient method of intubating mice for pulmonary function measurements or pulmonary instillation, that allows the mice to recover and be studied at later times. The procedure involves an inexpensive fiberoptic light source that directly illuminates the trachea.

Eine einfache Methode der Maus Lung Intubation

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Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging of Mouse Diaphragm Function

Function analysis of rodent respiratory skeletal muscles, particularly the diaphragm, is commonly performed by isolating muscle strips using invasive surgical procedures. Although this is an effective method of assessing in vitro diaphragm activity, it involves non-survival surgery. The application of non-invasive ultrasound imaging as an in vivo procedure is beneficial since it not only reduces the number of animals sacrificed, but is also suitable for monitoring disease progression in live mice. Thus, our ultrasound imaging method may likely assist in the development of novel therapies that alleviate muscle injury induced by various respiratory diseases. Particularly, in clinical diagnoses of obstructive lung diseases, ultrasound imaging has the potential to be used in conjunction with other standard tests to detect the early onset of diaphragm muscle fatigue. In the current protocol, we describe how to accurately evaluate diaphragm contractility in a mouse model using a diagnostic ultrasound imaging technique.

Diagnostic ultrasound imaging has proven to be effective in diagnosing various respiratory diseases in human and animal subjects. We demonstrate a comprehensive ultrasound protocol utilized by Dr. Zuo's lab to analyze diaphragm kinetics specifically in mouse models. This is also a non-invasive research technique which can provide quantitative information on mouse respiratory muscle function.

Diagnostische Ultraschall-Bildgebung der Maus Membranfunktion

Function analysis of rodent respiratory skeletal muscles, particularly the diaphragm, is commonly performed by isolating muscle strips using invasive ...

A Murine Model of Myocardial Ischemia-reperfusion Injury through Ligation of the Left Anterior Descending Artery

Acute or chronic myocardial infarction (MI) are cardiovascular events resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Establishing the pathological mechanisms at work during MI and developing effective therapeutic approaches requires methodology to reproducibly simulate the clinical incidence and reflect the pathophysiological changes associated with MI. Here, we describe a surgical method to induce MI in mouse models that can be used for short-term ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury as well as permanent ligation. The major advantage of this method is to facilitate location of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) to allow for accurate ligation of this artery to induce ischemia in the left ventricle of the mouse heart. Accurate positioning of the ligature on the LAD increases reproducibility of infarct size and thus produces more reliable results. Greater precision in placement of the ligature will improve the standard surgical approaches to simulate MI in mice, thus reducing the number of experimental animals necessary for statistically relevant studies and improving our understanding of the mechanisms producing cardiac dysfunction following MI. This mouse model of MI is also useful for the preclinical testing of treatments targeting myocardial damage following MI.

We introduce a surgical method to induce experimental ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury to simulate myocardial infarction (MI) in mouse models that allows for more clarity in positioning of the ligation on the left anterior descending artery (LAD) to increase the reproducibility of MI experiments in mice.

Einem Mausmodell der myokardialen Ischämie-Reperfusion Injury durch Ligation des linken vorderen absteigenden Arterie

Acute or chronic myocardial infarction (MI) are cardiovascular events resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Establishing the pathological mechanisms ...

Implantation of Fibrin Gel on Mouse Lung to Study Lung-specific Angiogenesis

Recent significant advances in stem cell research and bioengineering techniques have made great progress in utilizing biomaterials to regenerate and repair damage in simple tissues in the orthopedic and periodontal fields. However, attempts to regenerate the structures and functions of more complex three-dimensional (3D) organs such as lungs have not been very successful because the biological processes of organ regeneration have not been well explored. It is becoming clear that angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, plays key roles in organ regeneration. Newly formed vasculatures not only deliver oxygen, nutrients and various cell components that are required for organ regeneration but also provide instructive signals to the regenerating local tissues. Therefore, to successfully regenerate lungs in an adult, it is necessary to recapitulate the lung-specific microenvironments in which angiogenesis drives regeneration of local lung tissues. Although conventional in vivo angiogenesis assays, such as subcutaneous implantation of extracellular matrix (ECM)-rich hydrogels (e.g., fibrin or collagen gels or Matrigel - ECM protein mixture secreted by Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm mouse sarcoma cells), are extensively utilized to explore the general mechanisms of angiogenesis, lung-specific angiogenesis has not been well characterized because methods for orthotopic implantation of biomaterials in the lung have not been well established. The goal of this protocol is to introduce a unique method to implant fibrin gel on the lung surface of living adult mouse, allowing for the successful recapitulation of host lung-derived angiogenesis inside the gel. This approach enables researchers to explore the mechanisms by which the lung-specific microenvironment controls angiogenesis and alveolar regeneration in both normal and pathological conditions. Since implanted biomaterials release and supply physical and chemical signals to adjacent lung tissues, implantation of these biomaterials on diseased lung can potentially normalize the adjacent diseased tissues, enabling researchers to develop new therapeutic approaches for various types of lung diseases.

Recapitulation of the organ-specific microenvironment, which stimulates local angiogenesis, is indispensable for successful regeneration of damaged tissues. This report demonstrates a novel method to implant fibrin gels on the lung surface of living mouse in order to explore how the lung-specific microenvironment modulates angiogenesis and alveolar regeneration in adult mouse.

Die Implantation von Fibrin Gel auf Maus Lung Lung spezifischen Angiogenese Studieren

Recent significant advances in stem cell research and bioengineering techniques have made great progress in utilizing biomaterials to regenerate and ...

Intubation-mediated Intratracheal (IMIT) Instillation: A Noninvasive, Lung-specific Delivery System

Respiratory disease studies typically involve the use of murine models as surrogate systems. However, there are significant physiologic differences between the murine and human respiratory systems, especially in their upper respiratory tracts (URT). In some models, these differences in the murine nasal cavity can have a significant impact on disease progression and presentation in the lower respiratory tract (LRT) when using intranasal instillation techniques, potentially limiting the usefulness of the mouse model to study these diseases. For these reasons, it would be advantageous to develop a technique to instill bacteria directly into the mouse lungs in order to study LRT disease in the absence of involvement of the URT. We have termed this lung specific delivery technique intubation-mediated intratracheal (IMIT) instillation. This noninvasive technique minimizes the potential for instillation into the bloodstream, which can occur during more invasive traditional surgical intratracheal infection approaches, and limits the possibility of incidental digestive tract delivery. IMIT is a two-step process in which mice are first intubated, with an intermediate step to ensure correct catheter placement into the trachea, followed by insertion of a blunt needle into the catheter to mediate direct delivery of bacteria into the lung. This approach facilitates a &#62;98% efficacy of delivery into the lungs with excellent distribution of reagent throughout the lung. Thus, IMIT represents a novel approach to study LRT disease and therapeutic delivery directly into the lung, improving upon the ability to use mice as surrogates to study human respiratory disease. Furthermore, the accuracy and reproducibility of this delivery system also makes it amenable to Good Laboratory Practice Standards (GLPS), as well as delivery of a wide range of reagents which require high efficiency delivery to the lung.

Intubation-mediated Intratracheal IMIT Instillation: A Noninvasive, Lung-specific Delivery System

Intubation-mediated intratracheal (IMIT) instillation of reagents is an excellent, noninvasive method for studying respiratory disease, as well as a method for instilling therapeutic reagents directly into the lung. It is a rapid and highly reproducible method which is suitable for preclinical testing.

Intubation vermittelte Intratracheale (IMIT) Instillation: eine nichtinvasive, lungenspezifischen Delivery System

Respiratory disease studies typically involve the use of murine models as surrogate systems. However, there are significant physiologic differences ...

Cardiac Catheterization in Mice to Measure the Pressure Volume Relationship: Investigating the Bowditch Effect

Animal models that mimic human cardiac disorders have been created to test potential therapeutic strategies. A key component to evaluating these strategies is to examine their effects on heart function. There are several techniques to measure in vivo cardiac mechanics (e.g., echocardiography, pressure/volume relations, etc.). Compared to echocardiography, real-time left ventricular (LV) pressure/volume analysis via catheterization is more precise and insightful in assessing LV function. Additionally, LV pressure/volume analysis provides the ability to instantaneously record changes during manipulations of contractility (e.g., &#946;-adrenergic stimulation) and pathological insults (e.g., ischemia/reperfusion injury). In addition to the maximum (+dP/dt) and minimum (-dP/dt) rate of pressure change in the LV, an accurate assessment of LV function via several load-independent indexes (e.g., end systolic pressure volume relationship and preload recruitable stroke work) can be attained. Heart rate has a significant effect on LV contractility such that an increase in the heart rate is the primary mechanism to increase cardiac output (i.e., Bowditch effect). Thus, when comparing hemodynamics between experimental groups, it is necessary to have similar heart rates. Furthermore, a hallmark of many cardiomyopathy models is a decrease in contractile reserve (i.e., decreased Bowditch effect). Consequently, vital information can be obtained by determining the effects of increasing heart rate on contractility. Our and others data has demonstrated that the neuronal nitric oxide synthase (NOS1) knockout mouse has decreased contractility. Here we describe the procedure of measuring LV pressure/volume with increasing heart rates using the NOS1 knockout mouse model.

This article describes the measurement of murine left ventricular function via pressure/volume analysis at different heart rates.

Herzkatheter in Mäuse, um den Druck Volumen Relationship Maßnahme: Untersuchung der Bowditch Effect

Animal models that mimic human cardiac disorders have been created to test potential therapeutic strategies. A key component to evaluating these ...

Apical Resection Mouse Model to Study Early Mammalian Heart Regeneration

Cardiovascular disease plagues the whole world due to intensive lifestyle changes. Heart regeneration holds great promise for repairing and restoring cardiomyocytes lost due to injury and disease. In contrast to the robust cardiac regeneration of certain lower vertebrates, adult mammalian hearts typically show minimal capacity for heart regeneration and repair. However, recent studies have sparked considerable scientific interest with the finding that, between postnatal day 1 to 7 (P1 to P7), the neonatal mouse heart retains significant regenerative potential after apical resection (i.e., surgical amputation and exposure of left ventricular apex). One major controversy over this finding might be due to the diverse surgery-related procedures used in efforts to replicate or expand upon this important finding. These instructions dynamically present the materials and methodology for apical resection in a mouse model. The salient steps of this rodent survival surgery involve hypothermia anesthesia, thoracotomy, surgical amputation of heart ventricular apex, and suture and recovery of mice. The approach described could expand the application of the apical resection mouse model for cardiovascular research.

A step-by-step video protocol of apical resection is demonstrated in this study. Apical resection is a recently highlighted surgical approach in mammalian heart regeneration research. This study may promote the application of apical resection as a standard methodology in research into the mechanism underlying heart regeneration.

Wurzelspitzenresektion Mausmodell zur frühen Säugetierherzregeneration Studieren

Cardiovascular disease plagues the whole world due to intensive lifestyle changes. Heart regeneration holds great promise for repairing and restoring ...

Echocardiographic Measurement of Right Ventricular Diastolic Parameters in Mouse

Diastolic dysfunction is a prominent feature of right ventricular (RV) remodeling associated with conditions of pressure overload. However, the RV diastolic function is rarely quantified in experimental studies. This might be due to technical difficulties in the visualization of the RV in the apical four-chamber view in rodents. Here we describe two positions facilitating the visualization of the apical four-chamber view in mice to assess the RV diastolic function.
The apical four-chamber view is enabled by tilting the mouse fixation platform to the left and caudally (LeCa) or to the right and cranially (RiCr). Both positions provide images of comparable quality. The results of the RV diastolic function obtained from two positions are not significantly different. Both positions are comparably easy to perform. This protocol can be incorporated into published protocols and enables detailed investigations of the RV function.

Here we describe and compare two positions for obtaining the apical four-chamber view in mice. These positions enable the quantification of the right ventricular function, provide comparable results, and can be used interchangeably.

Echokardiographische Messung rechtsventrikulärer diastolischer Parameter in der Maus

Diastolic dysfunction is a prominent feature of right ventricular (RV) remodeling associated with conditions of pressure overload. However, the RV ...

Inducing Acute Lung Injury in Mice by Direct Intratracheal Lipopolysaccharide Instillation

Airway administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a common way to study pulmonary inflammation and acute lung injury (ALI) in small animal models. Various approaches have been described, such as the inhalation of aerosolized LPS as well as nasal or intratracheal instillation. The presented protocol describes a detailed step-by-step procedure to induce ALI in mice by direct intratracheal LPS instillation and perform FACS analysis of blood samples, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, and lung tissue. After intraperitoneal sedation, the trachea is exposed and LPS is administered via a 22 G venous catheter. A robust and reproducible inflammatory reaction with leukocyte invasion, upregulation of proinflammatory cytokines, and disruption of the alveolo-capillary barrier is induced within hours to days, depending on the LPS dosage used. Collection of blood samples, BAL fluid, and lung harvesting, as well as the processing for FACS analysis, are described in detail in the protocol. Although the use of the sterile LPS is not suitable to study pharmacologic interventions in infectious diseases, the described approach offers minimal invasiveness, simple handling, and good reproducibility to answer mechanistic immunological questions. Furthermore, dose titration as well as the use of alternative LPS preparations or mouse strains allow modulation of the clinical effects, which can exhibit different degrees of ALI severity or early vs. late onset of disease symptoms.

Presented here is a step-by-step procedure to induce acute lung injury in mice by direct intratracheal lipopolysaccharide instillation and to perform FACS analysis of blood samples, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, and lung tissue. Minimal invasiveness, simple handling, good reproducibility, and titration of disease severity are advantages of this approach.

Induzieren akute Lungenschädigung bei Mäusen durch direkte intratracheale Lipopolysaccharid-Instillation

Airway administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a common way to study pulmonary inflammation and acute lung injury (ALI) in small animal models. ...

Noninvasive Electrocardiography in the Perinatal Mouse

Electrocardiography (ECG) has long been relied upon as an effective and reliable method of assessing cardiovascular (and cardiopulmonary) function in both human and animal models of disease. Individual heart rate, rhythm, and regularity, combined with quantitative parameters collected from ECG, serve to assess the integrity of the cardiac conduction system as well as the integrated physiology of the cardiac cycle. This article provides a comprehensive description of the methods and techniques used to perform a noninvasive ECG on perinatal and neonatal mouse pups as early as the first postnatal day, without requiring the use of anesthetics. This protocol was designed to directly address a need for a standardized and repeatable method for obtaining ECG in newborn mice. From a translational perspective, this protocol proves to be entirely effective for characterization of congenital cardiopulmonary defects generated using transgenic mouse lines, and particularly for analysis of defects causing lethality at or during the first postnatal days. This protocol also aims to directly address a gap in the scientific literature to characterize and provide normative data associated with maturation of the early postnatal cardiac conduction system. This method is not limited to a specific postnatal timepoint, but rather allows for ECG data collection in neonatal mouse pups from birth to postnatal day 10 (P10), a window that is of critical importance for modeling human diseases in vivo, with particular emphasis on congenital heart disease (CHD).

Here, we present a noninvasive electrocardiography (ECG) protocol, optimized for early postnatal mice, that does not require the use of anesthetics.

Nichtinvasive Elektrokardiographie in der Perinatonmaus

Electrocardiography (ECG) has long been relied upon as an effective and reliable method of assessing cardiovascular (and cardiopulmonary) function in both ...