Universitatsmedizin Greifswald 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Murine Distal Colostomy, A Novel Model of Diversion Colitis in C57BL/6 Mice Annabel Kleinwort1, Paula Döring2, Christine Hackbarth1, Maciej Patrzyk1, Claus-Dieter Heidecke1, Tobias Schulze1 1Department of General Surgery, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, 2Institute of Pathology, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald Murine distal colostomy provides a murine model for human diversion colitis, a predominantly lymphocytic colitis in colon segment excluded from the fecal stream.