में एकतरफा सरवाइकल स्पाइनल कॉर्ड चोट की एक Contusive मॉडल अनंत क्षितिज impactor
Summary
एक विश्वसनीय और repeatable एक गर्भाशय ग्रीवा एकतरफा रीढ़ की हड्डी में चोट अनंत क्षितिज impactor का उपयोग कर उत्पादन में वर्णित है. विधि एक कस्टम डिजाइन फ्रेम के लाभ लेता है और रीढ़ को स्थिर करने के लिए दबाना है. मानकीकृत प्रक्रिया और पर्याप्त और घायल में biomechanical चोट मापदंडों परिणाम है.
Abstract
While the majority of human spinal cord injuries occur in the cervical spinal cord, the vast majority of laboratory research employs animal models of spinal cord injury (SCI) in which the thoracic spinal cord is injured. Additionally, because most human cord injuries occur as the result of blunt, non-penetrating trauma (e.g. motor vehicle accident, sporting injury) where the spinal cord is violently struck by displaced bone or soft tissues, the majority of SCI researchers are of the opinion that the most clinically relevant injury models are those in which the spinal cord is rapidly contused.1 Therefore, an important step in the preclinical evaluation of novel treatments on their way to human translation is an assessment of their efficacy in a model of contusion SCI within the cervical spinal cord. Here, we describe the technical aspects and resultant anatomical and behavioral outcomes of an unilateral contusive model of cervical SCI that employs the Infinite Horizon spinal cord injury impactor.
Sprague Dawley rats underwent a left-sided unilateral laminectomy at C5. To optimize the reproducibility of the biomechanical, functional, and histological outcomes of the injury model, we contused the spinal cords using an impact force of 150 kdyn, an impact trajectory of 22.5° (animals rotated at 22.5°), and an impact location off of midline of 1.4 mm. Functional recovery was assessed using the cylinder rearing test, horizontal ladder test, grooming test and modified Montoya’s staircase test for up to 6 weeks, after which the spinal cords were evaluated histologically for white and grey matter sparing.
The injury model presented here imparts consistent and reproducible biomechanical forces to the spinal cord, an important feature of any experimental SCI model. This results in discrete histological damage to the lateral half of the spinal cord which is largely contained to the ipsilateral side of injury. The injury is well tolerated by the animals, but does result in functional deficits of the forelimb that are significant and sustained in the weeks following injury. The cervical unilateral injury model presented here may be a resource to researchers who wish to evaluate potentially promising therapies prior to human translation.
Protocol
Discussion
इस पत्र में, हम एक गर्भाशय ग्रीवा के एकतरफा कुचलन 150 kdyn, 22.5 डिग्री के एक बंद ऊर्ध्वाधर कोण, और midline से 1.4 मिमी की एक पार्श्व उद्देश्य के बल पर अनंत क्षितिज (IH) impactor मॉडल का उपयोग कर का वर्णन. इन सेटिंग्स के साथ, हम parenc…
Divulgations
The authors have nothing to disclose.
Materials
| Name of the equipment | Company | Catalogue number | Comments |
| Infinite Horizon Impactor | Precision Systems and Instrumentation | IH-0400 | |
| Aluminum metal sheet | Metalsupermarlets.com | APT6061/500 | |
| Flexaframe support foot plates | Fishers Scientific | 1466625Q | |
| Flexaframe support rods | Fishers Scientific | 1466610GQ | |
| Flexaframe Support Connectors | Fishers Scientific | 1466620Q | |
| Clamp1 | Custom made | Choo et al., 2009 | |
| Metal holders | Custom made | See above | |
| Impactor tip | Custom made | Diameter: 1.15 mm | |
| Stereotaxic frame | David Kopf Instruments | Model 900 | |
| Cylinder Level | YIJIA TOOLS | YJ-SL0620 | |
| Microscope | Leica | Model #: MZ8 | |
| Laboratory scissor jack | VWR | 12620-902 |
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