Accedi

University of Maine, Orono, ME

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Neuroscience

Organotypic Slice Culture of GFP-expressing Mouse Embryos for Real-time Imaging of Peripheral Nerve Outgrowth

¹Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg

We present a method to prepare organotypic slices of mid-gestation mouse embryos for the cultivation and time-lapse imaging of peripheral nerve outgrowth.

Medicine

Noninvasive Electrocardiography in the Perinatal Mouse

Lindsey A. Fitzsimons^1,2, Victoria L. Brewer³, John Forrester², Adrian M. Moran⁴, Kerry L. Tucker^1,2

¹Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, ²Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England. Biddeford, ME, ³College of Arts and Sciences, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

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