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Implementation of Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Resection in Rodents for High Viability Tissue Collection
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2022
The present protocol describes a standardized resection of brain tumors in rodents through a minimally invasive approach with an integrated tissue preservation system. This technique has implications for accurately mirroring the standard of care in rodent and other animal models.
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Rodent Handling and Restraint Techniques
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2015
Source: Kay Stewart, RVT, RLATG, CMAR; Valerie A. Schroeder, RVT, RLATG. University of Notre Dame, IN It has been demonstrated that even minimal handling of mice and rats is stressful to the animals. Handling for cage changing and other noninvasive procedures causes an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and other physiological parameters, such as serum corticosterone levels. Fluctuations can continue for up to several hours. The methods of restraint required for injections and blood...
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Viability Assays for Cells in Culture
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2014
Therapeutic compounds are often first examined in vitro with viability assays. Blind cell counts by a human observer can be highly sensitive to small changes in cell number but do not assess function. Computerized viability assays, as described here, can assess both structure and function in an objective manner.
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Counting and Determining the Viability of Cultured Cells
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2008
Determining the number of cells in culture is important in standardization of culture conditions and in performing accurate quantitation experiments. In this video, we demonstrate how cells are counted using a hemacytometer.
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Rodent Identification II
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2015
Source: Kay Stewart, RVT, RLATG, CMAR; Valerie A. Schroeder, RVT, RLATG. University of Notre Dame, IN Animal records must be accurately maintained to ensure that data collection is correct. Records range from maintaining information on cage cards to having a detailed database with all of the relevant information on each animal. The primary component of recordkeeping is the individual identification of research animals. There are a variety of methods suitable for identifying mice and rats. This...
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Outer-segment renewal is essential because photoreceptors must maintain this specialized structure while continuing light-responsive activity. Energy production supplies the demands of cellular maintenance, and ion homeostasis keeps internal conditions stable. If renewal, energy generation, or ion regulation is disrupted, cellular stress can rise and photoreceptor survival may be compromised, helping explain changes in retinal health.
Ion homeostasis helps maintain the internal cellular conditions required for rod and cone function. Neighboring retinal cells provide additional support that photoreceptors need to remain viable. Disturbance in either regulation or cellular support can contribute to stress and photoreceptor death, so neuroscience studies consider these processes when investigating retinal injury and degeneration.
These measurements examine different aspects of photoreceptor condition. Cellular morphology can reveal structural changes, markers can identify photoreceptor populations, metabolic readouts can indicate cellular activity, and physiological responses can address light-responsive function. Combining them gives researchers a broader characterization of retinal injury or degeneration than relying on a single type of measurement.
Researchers can select measurements that match the biological question, including morphology, photoreceptor markers, metabolic readouts, or physiological responses. Structural and marker-based observations characterize the cells and their identity, while metabolic and physiological measurements add information about cellular state and light responsiveness. Together, these approaches help evaluate retinal health and photoreceptor preservation.
Changes in cellular morphology, photoreceptor markers, metabolism, or physiological responses can provide evidence that retinal photoreceptors are being affected. Comparing these readouts helps characterize the nature of the retinal condition and whether photoreceptor populations retain light-responsive function. This information supports broader analysis of how injury or degeneration alters retinal health.
Inherited retinal disorders can be studied by examining whether rod and cone populations maintain their structure, cellular markers, metabolic state, and physiological responses. These measurements help researchers characterize disease-associated retinal changes and determine how photoreceptor health is affected. The resulting information provides a basis for evaluating approaches intended to preserve photoreceptor populations and vision.
Viability measurements provide outcome measures for determining whether an intervention helps maintain photoreceptor populations and their light-responsive function. Morphology, markers, metabolic readouts, and physiological responses can each contribute evidence about retinal condition after a strategy is tested. In this way, the assessments support research on neuroprotection and treatments designed to preserve vision.