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Preparation of Intact Bovine Tail Intervertebral Discs for Organ Culture
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Bioengineering
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JoVE Journal Bioengineering
Preparation of Intact Bovine Tail Intervertebral Discs for Organ Culture
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13:37 min

February 02, 2012

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 02:51Preparing the Bovine Tail for Dissection
  • 04:01Dissection of Intact Bovine Tail Intervertebral Discs
  • 07:02Free-swelling Organ Culture Systems in Beakers / Containers
  • 07:39Organ Culture in Custom-made Specimen Chambers using Glass/PE Containers
  • 08:26Diffusion Experiment to Determine Successful Intervertebral Disc Preparation
  • 09:39Representative Images from Free Swelling and Live/Dead Experiments Performed on IVDs
  • 12:45Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

This protocol illustrates a harvesting technique for coccygeal bovine intervertebral discs for organ culture for in vitro organ culture.

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