State University of New York Buffalo School of Medicine

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Bioengineering

Surgical Technique for the Implantation of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts and Subsequent In Vivo Monitoring

Maxwell T. Koobatian¹, Carmon Koenigsknecht², Sindhu Row³, Stelios Andreadis³, Daniel Swartz²

¹Department of Physiology & Bio-Physics, State University of New York Buffalo School of Medicine, ²Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York Buffalo School of Medicine, ³Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, State University of New York Buffalo School of Engineering

A step-by-step protocol for the inter-positional placement of Tissue Engineered Vessels (TEVs) into the carotid artery of a sheep using end-to-end anastomosis and real-time digital assessment in vivo until animal sacrifice.

Medicine

The Perinatal Asphyxiated Lamb Model: A Model for Newborn Resuscitation

Payam Vali^*1, Sylvia Gugino^*2, Carmon Koenigsknecht², Justin Helman², Praveen Chandrasekharan², Munmun Rawat², Satyan Lakshminrusimha¹, Jayasree Nair²

¹Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis, ²Department of Pediatrics, University at Buffalo

Invasive instrumentation of the fetal lamb provides accurate physiologic measurements of the transitioning circulation in a model that closely mimics the newly born infant.