Taipei Medical University Hospital 5 articles published in JoVE Medicine Intratracheal Instillation of Stem Cells in Term Neonatal Rats Chung-Ming Chen1,2, Yue-Jun Chen1, Zheng-Hao Huang1 1Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 2Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Medical University Hospital Described is a protocol for performing intratracheal transplantation of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) through intratracheal injection in term neonatal rats. This technique is a clinically viable option for delivery of stem cells and drugs into neonatal rat lungs to evaluate their efficacy. Medicine Tracking Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide-labeled Mesenchymal Stem Cells using MRI after Intranasal Delivery in a Traumatic Brain Injury Murine Model Rami Ahmad Shahror1,2,3, Chung-Che Wu2,3,4,5, Yung-Hsiao Chiang1,2,3,4,5, Kai-Yun Chen1,2,3 1Ph.D. Program for Neural Regenerative Medicine, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University and National Health Research Institutes, 2Center for Neurotrauma and Neuroregeneration, Taipei Medical University, 3TMU Neuroscience Research Center, Taipei Medical University, 4Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Medical University Hospital, 5Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University Presented here is a protocol for non-invasive mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) delivery and tracking in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles are employed as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probe for MSC labeling and non-invasive in vivo tracking following intranasal delivery using real-time MRI. Medicine Two-vessel Occlusion Mouse Model of Cerebral Ischemia-reperfusion Cheng-Yu Chen*1,2,3,4,5, Ray-Jade Chen*6,7, Gilbert Aaron Lee5 1Research Center of Translational Imaging, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 2Radiogenomic Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, 3Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 4Department of Medical Imaging, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, 5Department of Medical Research, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, 6Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 7Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Medical University Hospital A mouse model of cerebral ischemia-reperfusion is established to investigate the pathophysiology of stroke. We distally ligate the right middle cerebral artery and right common carotid artery and restore blood flow after 10 or 40 min of ischemia. Medicine Treatment of Liver Metastases Using an Internal Target Volume Method for Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Wei-Jun Wang1,2, Jeng-Fong Chiou1,2,3, Yaoru Huang1,2,4 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, 2Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 3Taipei Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, 4Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials & Tissue Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) requires rigorous accuracy and precision for delivering high radiation doses per fraction to small treatment volumes to improve tumor control and simultaneously reduce toxicity. Herein, we present a noninvasive and clinically convenient respiratory motion management protocol for SBRT for liver metastases. Immunology and Infection Early Viral Entry Assays for the Identification and Evaluation of Antiviral Compounds Chen-Jei Tai1,2, Chia-Lin Li3, Cheng-Jeng Tai4,5, Chien-Kai Wang2,4, Liang-Tzung Lin3,6 1Department of Chinese Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 3Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 4Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, 5Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 6Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University Here, we present a protocol that examines specific steps of the viral entry to identify and evaluate novel antiviral agents.