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A Radio-telemetric System to Monitor Cardiovascular Function in Rats with Spinal Cord Transection and Embryonic Neural Stem Cell Grafts
 

A Radio-telemetric System to Monitor Cardiovascular Function in Rats with Spinal Cord Transection and Embryonic Neural Stem Cell Grafts

Article doi: 10.3791/51914
October 7th, 2014 •
1, 2, 3,4
1Spinal Cord Research Center, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital, 3Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Diego, CA, 4Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego

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October 7th, 2014

We present a protocol for using a radio-telemetric system to record cardiovascular parameters in T4 spinal cord transected rats eight weeks after embryonic brainstem neural stem cell grafting into the lesion site. Telemetry is an advanced technique to accurately evaluate cardiovascular function in conscious freely moving spinal cord injured rats.

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