1. Laser-Induced Noninvasive Vascular Injury Models in Mice Generate Platelet- and Coagulation-Dependent Thrombi
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Francisco Noria, Mayra J. Sandoval-Cooper, Francis J. Castellino, Sylvain Raymond, James L. Merz, Alexis Shulman, Amy Zollman, and Elliot D. Rosen
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Blood Platelets ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Technical Advances ,Peptides, Cyclic ,Antithrombins ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Amino Acid Chloromethyl Ketones ,Mice ,Fibrinolytic Agents ,In vivo ,Medicine ,Animals ,Platelet ,Thrombus ,Blood Coagulation ,Fluorescent Dyes ,Rose Bengal ,business.industry ,Lasers ,Thrombosis ,medicine.disease ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Disease Models, Animal ,Microscopy, Electron ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Coagulation ,Sulfoxides ,Platelet aggregation inhibitor ,Blood Vessels ,business ,Fibrinolytic agent ,Intravital microscopy ,Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors ,Blood vessel - Abstract
A minimally invasive laser-induced injury model is described to study thrombus development in mice in vivo. The protocol involves focusing the beam of an argon-ion laser through a compound microscope on the vasculature of a mouse ear that is sufficiently thin such that blood flow can be visualized by intravital microscopy. Two distinct injury models have been established. The first involves direct laser illumination with a short, high-intensity pulse. In this case, thrombus formation is inhibited by the GPIIb/IIIa antagonist, G4120. However, the anticoagulants, hirulog, PPACK, and NapC2 have minimal effect. This indicates that thrombus development induced by this model mainly involves platelet interactions. The second model involves low-intensity laser illumination of mice injected with Rose Bengal dye to induce photochemical injury in the region of laser illumination. Thrombi generated by this latter procedure have a slower development and are inhibited by both anticoagulant and anti-platelet compounds.
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- 2001