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A novel vertebral stabilization method for producing contusive spinal cord injury.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Walker, Melissa J. Walker, Chandler L. Zhang, Y. Ping Shields, Lisa B. E. Shields, Christopher B. Xu, Xiao-Ming
Description	Author Affiliation: Walker MJ ( Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Department of Neurological Surgery and Goodman and Campbell Brain and Spine, Indiana University School of Medicine); Walker CL ( Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Department of Neurological Surgery and Goodman and Campbell Brain and Spine, Indiana University School of Medicine); Zhang YP ( Norton Neuroscience Institute, Norton Healthcare.); Shields LB ( Norton Neuroscience Institute, Norton Healthcare.); Shields CB ( Norton Neuroscience Institute, Norton Healthcare); Xu XM ( Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Department of Neurological Surgery and Goodman and Campbell Brain and Spine, Indiana University School of Medicine)
Abstract	Clinically-relevant animal cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) models are essential for developing and testing potential therapies; however, producing reliable cervical SCI is difficult due to lack of satisfactory methods of vertebral stabilization. The conventional method to stabilize the spine is to suspend the rostral and caudal cervical spine via clamps attached to cervical spinous processes. However, this method of stabilization fails to prevent tissue yielding during the contusion as the cervical spinal processes are too short to be effectively secured by the clamps (Figure 1). Here we introduce a new method to completely stabilize the cervical vertebra at the same level of the impact injury. This method effectively minimizes movement of the spinal column at the site of impact, which greatly improves the production of consistent SCIs. We provide visual description of the equipment (Figure 2-4), methods, and a step-by-step protocol for the stabilization of the cervical 5 vertebra (C5) of adult rats, to perform laminectomy (Figure 5) and produce a contusive SCI thereafter. Although we only demonstrate a cervical hemi-contusion using the NYU/MASCIS impactor device, this vertebral stabilization technique can be applied to other regions of the spinal cord, or be adapted to other SCI devices. Improving spinal cord exposure and fixation through vertebral stabilization may be valuable for producing consistent and reliable injuries to the spinal cord. This vertebral stabilization method can also be used for stereotactic injections of cells and tracers, and for imaging using two-photon microscopy in various neurobiological studies.
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e-ISSN	1940087X
DOI	10.3791/50149
Journal	Journal of Visualized Experiments
Issue Number	95
Language	English
Publisher	MyJove Corp.
Publisher Date	2015-01-05
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Discipline Physical Sciences Discipline Life Sciences Discipline Medicine Cervical Vertebrae Injuries Disease Models, Animal Spinal Cord Injuries Etiology Animals Rats, Sprague-dawley Restraint, Physical Research Support, N.i.h., Extramural Research Support, Non-u.s. Gov't Video-audio Media
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