Name: ferric chloride-induced murine thrombosis models
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This work was supported by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers R01 HL121212 (PI: Sen Gupta), R01 HL129179 (PI: Sen Gupta, Co-I: Li) and R01 HL098217 (PI: Nieman). The content of this publication is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

All procedures and manipulations of animals have been approved by Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) of The Cleveland Clinic in accordance with the United States Public Health Service Policy on the Humane Care and Use of Animals, and the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
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The FeCl3-induced model is one of the most widely used thrombosis models, which can not only provide valuable information about genetic modifications on platelet function and thrombosis7,8,16,19,31-33, but can also be a valuable tool for evaluation of therapeutic compounds and strategies for treatment and prevention of atherothrombotic diseases11,17,34-37. Here we have shown our modifications and refinements of this model and showed additional evidence of the utility of this technique, wh...

Arterial thrombosis (blood clot) is a common complication of many systemic diseases associated with chronic inflammation, including atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, cancer and chronic autoimmune rheumatologic disorders. Thrombi that occur in the arterial circulation stem from inappropriate platelet activation, aggregation and subsequent coagulatory mechanisms, and are implicated in heart attacks, strokes and extremity loss. The vessel wall is a complex system that includes multiple cell types and is influenced by a multitude of extrinsic factors including shear stress, circulating blood cells, hormones and cytokines, as well as expression of antioxidant proteins in the vessel wall. In vitro experiments cannot replicate this complex environment and therefore in vivo studies using animal models are critical to allow better understanding of mechanisms involved in thrombotic disorders.
Mice have been shown to have similar mechanisms to humans in terms of thrombosis, atherosclerosis, inflammation and diabetes1,2. Furthermore, transgenic and knockout mice can be created to test the function of specific gene products in a complex physiologic or pathologic environment. Such studies mimic human pathology and may provide important mechanistic information related to discovery of new pathways and therapies, as well as provide important details in characterizing drug effects on thrombosis.
Pathological arterial thrombi occur due to endothelial layer injury or dysfunction and exposure of the blood stream to the subendothelial matrix3,4. Various thrombosis models have been developed to induce this endothelial damage such as mechanical injury, photoreactive compound Rose Bengal-based oxidative injury and laser injury5. In this spectrum, Ferric chloride (FeCl3)-induced vascular injury is a widely used model of thrombosis. This reagent when applied to the outer aspect of vessels induces oxidative damage to vascular cells6-8, with loss of endothelial cell protection from circulating platelets and components of the coagulation cascade. The FeCl3 model is simple and sensitive to both anticoagulant and anti-platelets drugs, and has been performed on carotid and femoral arteries, jugular veins, and mesenteric and cremasteric arterioles and venules in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits6-15.
One measurable parameter in this model is the elapsed time from injury to complete vessel occlusion, measured as blood flow cessation with a Doppler flow meter or under direct observation with intravital microscopy6,7,9. A range of times between 5 to 30 min has been reported in different studies in C57Bl6 mice7-10,16, suggesting that FeCl3 concentrations, types of anesthesia, surgical techniques, mouse age, genomic background, method of measuring blood flow, and other environmental variables have significant effects in this model. This wide variability makes it difficult to compare studies from different research groups and may make detection of subtle differences difficult.
With a vision to minimize such variabilities and establish a uniformly reproducible in vivo model system, we have refined the FeCl3-induced carotid artery model that makes the data highly reproducible with minimal variation6-10,16-19. In this paper we describe and share the skills and report several representative experimental examples that can benefit from this model.

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ferric chloride-induced murine thrombosis models

Arterial thrombosis (blood clot) is a common complication of many systemic diseases associated with chronic inflammation, including atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, cancer and chronic autoimmune rheumatologic disorders. Thrombi are the cause of most heart attacks, strokes and extremity loss, making thrombosis an extremely important public health problem. Since these thrombi stem from inappropriate platelet activation and subsequent coagulation, targeting these systems therapeutically has important clinical significance for developing safer treatments. Due to the complexities of the hemostatic system, in vitro experiments cannot replicate the blood-to-vessel wall interactions; therefore, in vivo studies are critical to understand pathological mechanisms of thrombus formation. To this end, various thrombosis models have been developed in mice. Among them, ferric chloride (FeCl3) induced vascular injury is a widely used model of occlusive thrombosis that reports platelet activation and aggregation in the context of an aseptic closed vascular system. This model is based on redox-induced endothelial cell injury, which is simple and sensitive to both anticoagulant and anti-platelets drugs. The time required for the development of a thrombus that occludes blood flow gives a quantitative measure of vascular injury, platelet activation and aggregation that is relevant to thrombotic diseases. We have significantly refined this FeCl3-induced vascular thrombosis model, which makes the data highly reproducible with minimal variation. Here we describe the model and present representative data from several experimental set-ups that demonstrate the utility of this model in thrombosis research.

Carotid Artery Thrombosis Model 
In mice with C57BL6 background, we recommend using 7.5% FeCl3 to treat the vessel for 1 min as a starting point. Under treatment of 7.5% FeCl3, borders of the injured area and normal vessel wall are easily identified under microscope (See online video 1), suggesting that the endothelial layer was significantly damaged. The thrombi formed immediately upon FeCl3 treatment, and are observ...

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Ferric Chloride-induced Murine Thrombosis Models

We report a refined procedure of the ferric chloride (FeCl3)-induced thrombosis models on carotid and mesenteric artery as well as vein, characterized efficiently using intravital microscopy to monitor time to occlusive thrombi formation.

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