Articles by Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado in JoVE

Planarian Immobilization, Partial Irradiation, and Tissue Transplantation

JoVE 4015 8/06/2012

Otto C. Guedelhoefer IV^1,2, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado^3,4

¹Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah School of Medicine, ²Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, UCSB, ³Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ⁴Stowers Institute for Medical Research

An effective method for grafting tissue of defined and consistent size between planaria is described. Also included is a description of how the immobilization technique used for transplantation can be adapted, in conjunction with lead shields, for the partial irradiation of live animals.