Donor strain (heart) Recipient strain Tacrolimus dose (mg/kg) The mean graft survival (days) Administration of the drug References Brown-Norway RT1n Lewis RT1I 1 10–15 Oral Deuse et al. [13] Brown-Norway…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Peter Girman, Jan Kriz and Peter Balaz (eds.)Rat Experimental Transplantation Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-14559-4_7 7. Recovery After Surgery Eva Fabryova1 and Jan Kriz2 (1) Laboratory of Pancreatic Islets, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech…
Fig. 1 Schematic drawing of the pressure myograph setup used for the described protocols 1. Regular microscope. 2. Micro-forceps, micro-scissors, and petri dish for dissection. 3. Glass pipettes…
Fig. 1 Schematic describing aortic flow cytometry protocol 2 Materials 2.1 Harvest Aorta 1. Microdissection tools. 2. Surgical microscope (e.g., Diagnostic Instruments Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan). 3. 1×…
Fig. 1 Tools to dissect and mount the vessels into the wire myograph. The small petri dish contains 2-cm-long wires. The blue mark on the petri dish marks a length…
Fig. 1 Mouse board for cremaster muscle intravital microscopy. The board should be maintained in a constant temperature (36.5–37.5 °C) with a heating system. There are two areas in the…
Fig. 1 PET/CT scanner and different equipment needed for anesthesia, injection of CT contrast agent, and temperature control (a) CT subsystem (see Note 3 ). (b) PET subsystem (see…
Fig. 1 Gravity flow apparatus for vascular perfusion. Perfusant is suspended at a height of 60 cm above the mice to be perfused so as to maintain a pressure of…
Fig. 1 Morphology of normal and apoptotic smooth muscle cell nuclei. (a) Control mouse carotid artery demonstrating normal nuclear morphology. (b) Carotid artery showing nuclear condensation (filled arrows) compared to…
Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of the biliary macrophage-RCT pathway. Cholesteryl esters (CE) stored in lipid droplets of macrophage foam cells are hydrolyzed by neutral cholesteryl ester hydrolases. Lipid-poor nascent preβ-migrating…
