Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals 2 articles published in JoVE Medicine Murine Precision-Cut Liver Slices as an Ex Vivo Model of Liver Biology Michael A. Pearen*1, Hong Kiat Lim*1, Francis D. Gratte2,3, Manuel A. Fernandez-Rojo1,4,5, Sujeevi K. Nawaratna6, Geoffrey N. Gobert7, John K. Olynyk8,9, Janina E. E. Tirnitz-Parker2,10, Grant A. Ramm1,4 1Hepatic Fibrosis Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 2School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, 3School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, 4School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, 5Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (IMDEA) in Food, CEI UAM+CSIC, 6School of Medicine, Griffith University, 7 This protocol provides a simple and reliable method for the production of viable precision-cut liver slices from mice. The ex vivo tissue samples can be maintained under laboratory tissue culture conditions for multiple days, providing a flexible model to examine liver pathobiology. Biology The Murine Choline-Deficient, Ethionine-Supplemented (CDE) Diet Model of Chronic Liver Injury Jully Gogoi-Tiwari1, Julia Köhn-Gaone1, Corey Giles2, Dirk Schmidt-Arras3, Francis D. Gratte1,4, Caryn L. Elsegood1, Geoffrey W. McCaughan5,6,7, Grant A. Ramm8,9, John K. Olynyk10,11, Janina E.E. Tirnitz-Parker1,12 1School of Biomedical Sciences & Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, 2School of Public Health & Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, 3Institute of Biochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University, 4School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, 5Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, The University of Sydney, 6Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 7A.W. Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, 8QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 9Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, 10Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals, 11School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, 12School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia Here we describe a common method to induce chronic liver injury in mice by feeding of a choline-deficient and ethionine-supplemented (CDE) diet. We demonstrate health monitoring, liver perfusion, isolation, and preservation. A time course of six weeks can inform about liver injury, pathohistology, fibrosis, inflammatory, and liver progenitor cell responses.
