I am looking for a method to perform a spinal cord transection in an in vivo anesthetized rat model. This will be nonsurvival surgery, so after the spinal cord transection the rat will be euthanized soon afterward after collecting some parameters.
This book is very useful as a reference (as is volume 2):
http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/book/978-1-60327-184-4
You can also refer may be Transection method for shortening the rat spine and spinal cord
YUICHIRO YOSHIDA1, HIDEO KATAOKA2, TSUKASA KANCHIKU1, HIDENORI SUZUKI1, YASUAKI IMAJYO1, HIDETOYO KATO1 and TOSHIHIKO TAGUCHI1
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine;
2Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yamaguchi Laborers Hospital, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
Received October 12, 2012; Accepted November 15, 2012
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