Hello everyone,

During the site visit on 3/27/2023, we discussed with Pat and Jessica about making blood clot and the clot delivery tubing to be used.  PE50 tubing is commonly used to insert the clot delivery tubing into the MCA in the mouse and rat clot embolic stroke model. The PE50 tubing OD (0.99 mm) is too large and thus must be thinned down to 0.3-0.4 mm for the rat embolic model, as shown in the figure below. The thinning/extrusion technique via heating requires "significant" training to ensure a smooth extrusion.

Please use this thread to enter your ideas and wishes from the MRI committee.

This forum is for your comments regarding the pilot study. 

This forum is for developing the SPAN 2.0 embolic clot lysis model

This forum is for discussing file sharing software.

This SPAN Surgical training video was developed by UT Houston in 2019-2020 according to the SPAN 1.0 Stage 1 SOP 6. New surgeons should consult the Network Manager (Jessica Lamb) for any clarifications or questions regarding the surgery protocol.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGA250Vbw5o