The Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital) 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Establishment of a Simple and Effective Rat Model for Intraoperative Parathyroid Gland Imaging Fan Chen*1,2, Chun Liu*3, Peng Guo3, Weihui Zheng1,2 1Key Laboratory of Head & Neck Cancer Translational Research of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, 2The Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), 3Institute of Basic Medicine and Cancer (IBMC), Chinese Academy of Sciences To date, the development of parathyroid gland (PG) identification methods is limited by the lack of animal models in preclinical research. Here, we establish a simple and effective rat model for intraoperative PG imaging and evaluate its effectiveness by using iron oxide nanoparticles as a novel PG contrast agent.
