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Abstract

Neuroscience

Modified Spared Nerve Injury Surgery Model of Neuropathic Pain in Mice

Published: January 25th, 2022

DOI:

10.3791/63362

1Department of Pain Management, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, 2Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, 3University of Washington
* These authors contributed equally

Abstract

Spared nerve injury (SNI) is an animal model that mimics the cardinal symptoms of peripheral nerve injury for studying the molecular and cellular mechanism of neuropathic pain in mice and rats. Currently, there are two types of SNI model, one to cut and ligate the common peroneal and the tibial nerves with intact sural nerve, which is defined as SNIs in this study, and another to cut and ligate the common peroneal and the sural nerves with intact tibial nerve, which is defined as SNIt in this study. Because the sural nerve is purely sensory whereas the tibial nerve contains both motor and sensory fibers, the SNIt model has much less motor deficit than the SNIs model. In the traditional SNIt mouse model, the common peroneal and the sural nerves are cut and ligated separately. Here a modified SNIt surgery method is described to damage both common peroneal and sural nerves with only one ligation and one cut with a shorter procedure time, which is easier to perform and reduces the potential risk of stretching the sciatic or tibial nerves, and produces similar mechanical hypersensitivity as the traditional SNIt model.

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Keywords Modified Spared Nerve Injury

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