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A Technique for Human Skin Grafting in a Mouse Model
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2025
This video demonstrates a method for grafting human skin onto an immunodeficient mouse with a suppressed neutrophil response. The method involves applying human split-thickness skin to the mouse's graft bed, sealing it, and covering it for recovery. Eventually, the human skin adheres to the mouse's skin, establishing vascularization and circulation, resulting in a successful skin xenograft.
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Surgical Technique for the Implantation of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts and Subsequent In Vivo Monitoring
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2015
A step-by-step protocol for the inter-positional placement of Tissue Engineered Vessels (TEVs) into the carotid artery of a sheep using end-to-end anastomosis and real-time digital assessment in vivo until animal sacrifice.
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Orthotopic Porcine Kidney Transplantation: A Technique to Transplant Graft Kidney in Porcine Model
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2025
This video describes orthotopic kidney auto-transplantation in a porcine model. This surgical procedure involves the transplantation of an animal's kidney graft at its original anatomical location. The model is used to investigate new treatments for end-stage kidney diseases in humans.
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Technique of Subnormothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion for the Storage, Assessment, and Repair of Marginal Liver Grafts
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2014
Marginal grafts, such as fatty livers, grafts from older donors, or livers retrieved after cardiac death (DCD) tolerate conventional, cold static storage only poorly. We developed a novel model of subnormothermic ex vivo liver perfusion for preservation, assessment, and repair of marginal liver grafts prior to transplantation.
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Training a Sophisticated Microsurgical Technique: Interposition of External Jugular Vein Graft in the Common Carotid Artery in Rats
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2012
Neointimal hyperplasia is the primary cause of stenosis in arterialized veins. We propose a new protocol whereby the right external jugular vein is grafted using the cuff technique in the common carotid artery of Sprague Dawley rats. The survival rate was 100 % at the time point of sacrifice.
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The critical early step is aligning the vascular cambium of the scion and rootstock. This alignment places the tissues capable of producing new vascular connections in register. If the layers meet appropriately, wound-generated callus can bridge the interface, creating a continuous pathway that supports the two joined plant parts as growth proceeds.
Callus tissue acts as an intermediate repair tissue at the graft interface. It forms in response to wounding and helps bridge the separated plant surfaces before xylem and phloem reconnect. This healing sequence is important because the graft must establish vascular continuity rather than merely remain physically attached.
Reconnected xylem and phloem restore vascular continuity across the graft union. This reconnection links the rootstock and scion internally, allowing the joined structure to function as one growing system. Studying these tissues also helps biologists investigate vascular development and the movement of signals over long distances within plants.
A basic procedure joins a selected scion to a rootstock, places their cut surfaces together, and carefully aligns the vascular cambium layers. The joined area is then allowed to undergo its wound response, including callus formation and vascular reconnection. Successful execution therefore depends on accurate tissue contact rather than attachment alone.
Grafting is especially useful when a plant is difficult to propagate by rooting. It can also combine a disease-resistant root system with a scion valued for fruit or flower quality. In addition, the method can improve plant vigor or stress tolerance, making it useful when several desirable properties need to be combined in one plant.
The graft union provides a practical experimental system for examining plant growth, vascular development, and long-distance signaling. Because the scion and rootstock contribute distinct plant parts that become connected through new vascular tissue, researchers can study how growth and signals move across that interface. This makes grafting relevant to both horticultural practice and plant biology.