A Mouse Tail Snip Procedure for Peripheral Blood Collection and Plasma Isolation

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A Mouse Tail Snip Procedure for Peripheral Blood Collection and Plasma Isolation

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In this video, we demonstrate a tail-snipping procedure in a mouse model to collect peripheral blood. The collected blood is subsequently subjected to centrifugation to separate plasma, which can be used for further experiments.

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Source: Coats, J. S. et al., Expression of Exogenous Cytokine in Patient-derived Xenografts via Injection with a Cytokine-transduced Stromal Cell Line. J. Vis. Exp. (2017)