University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Location, Dissection, and Analysis of the Murine Stellate Ganglion Katharina Scherschel1,2,3, Hanna Bräuninger2,4, Klara Glufke2, Christiane Jungen2,4,5, Nikolaj Klöcker3, Christian Meyer1,2,3 1Division of Cardiology, EVK Düsseldorf, cNEP, cardiac Neuro- and Electrophysiology Research Consortium, 2DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), 3Institute of Neural and Sensory Physiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 4Clinic for Cardiology, University Heart & Vascular Centre, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, 5Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center Pathophysiological changes in the cardiac autonomic nervous system, especially in its sympathetic branch, contribute to the onset and maintenance of ventricular arrhythmias. In the present protocol, we show how to characterize murine stellate ganglia to improve the understanding of the underlying molecular and cellular processes.
