Kaplan Medical Center

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Bioengineering

Dana Egozi^*1, Yulia Shandalov^*2, Alina Freiman^2,3, Dekel Rosenfeld², David Ben-Shimol⁴, Shulamit Levenberg²

¹Department of Plastic Surgery, Kaplan Medical Center, ²Biomedical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, ³Interdepartmental Program in Biotechnology, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, ⁴Medicine Department, Technion Israel Institute of Technology

To date, thick tissue defects are typically reconstructed by applying autologous tissue flaps or engineered tissues. In this protocol, we present a new method for engineering vascularized tissue flap bearing an autologous pedicle, to serve as a substitute to autologous flaps.

Cancer Research

Implantation and Evaluation of Melanoma in the Murine Choroid via Optical Coherence Tomography

Dimitri Gaber¹, Michal Aharoni-Simon¹, Ortal Zaks¹, Keren Ben-Yaakov¹, Ziv Rotfogel^1,2, Hana Leiba^1,2, Avital Eisenberg-Lerner^*1, Arie L. Marcovich^*1,2

¹Ophthalmology Research Laboratory, Kaplan Medical Center, ²Department of Ophthalmology, Kaplan Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The present protocol describes the implantation and evaluation of melanoma in the murine choroid utilizing optical coherence tomography.