Dentistry and Health Sciences University of Melbourne

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Biology

Detecting Establishment of Shared Blood Supply in Parabiotic Mice by Caudal Vein Glucose Injection

Xin Liu¹, Xue Bai¹, Mingqi Li¹, Huimin Li¹, Yong Zhang^1,2, Baofeng Yang^1,3

¹Department of Pharmacology, The State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research, Ministry of Education, College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, ²Institute of Metabolic Disease, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Science, ³Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Melbourne School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences University of Melbourne

Here we describe a new method of detecting successful establishment of shared blood circulation of two parabionts through a caudal vein injection of glucose, which causes minimal damage and is not fatal to the parabionts.