TY - JOUR
T1 - High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Footpad Vasculature in a Murine Hindlimb Gangrene Model
AU - Ribieras, Antoine J.
AU - Ortiz, Yulexi Y.
AU - Shrestha, Sophie
AU - Theodore Huerta, C.
AU - Shao, Hongwei
AU - Boulina, Maria E.
AU - Vazquez-Padron, Roberto I.
AU - Liu, Zhao Jun
AU - Velazquez, Omaida C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants to Z-J L and OC V from the National Institutes of Health [R01HL149452 and VITA (NHLBl-CSB-HV-2017-01-JS)]. We also thank the Microscopy and Imaging Facility of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami School of Medicine for providing access to their image analysis and processing software.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 JoVE Journal of Visualized Experiments.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a significant cause of morbidity resulting from chronic exposure to atherosclerotic risk factors. Patients suffering from its most severe form, chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), face substantial impairments to daily living, including chronic pain, limited walking distance without pain, and nonhealing wounds. Preclinical models have been developed in various animals to study PAD, but mouse hindlimb ischemia remains the most widely used. There can be significant variation in response to ischemic insult in these models depending on the mouse strain used and the site, number, and means of arterial disruption. This protocol describes a unique method combining femoral artery and vein electrocoagulation with the administration of a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor to reliably induce footpad gangrene in Friend Virus B (FVB) mice that resembles the tissue loss of CLTI. While traditional means of assessing reperfusion such as laser Doppler perfusion imaging (LDPI) are still recommended, intracardiac perfusion of the lipophilic dye 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate (DiI) is used to label the vasculature. Subsequent whole-mount confocal laser scanning microscopy allows for high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of footpad vascular networks that complements traditional means of assessing reperfusion in hindlimb ischemia models.
AB - Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a significant cause of morbidity resulting from chronic exposure to atherosclerotic risk factors. Patients suffering from its most severe form, chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), face substantial impairments to daily living, including chronic pain, limited walking distance without pain, and nonhealing wounds. Preclinical models have been developed in various animals to study PAD, but mouse hindlimb ischemia remains the most widely used. There can be significant variation in response to ischemic insult in these models depending on the mouse strain used and the site, number, and means of arterial disruption. This protocol describes a unique method combining femoral artery and vein electrocoagulation with the administration of a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor to reliably induce footpad gangrene in Friend Virus B (FVB) mice that resembles the tissue loss of CLTI. While traditional means of assessing reperfusion such as laser Doppler perfusion imaging (LDPI) are still recommended, intracardiac perfusion of the lipophilic dye 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate (DiI) is used to label the vasculature. Subsequent whole-mount confocal laser scanning microscopy allows for high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of footpad vascular networks that complements traditional means of assessing reperfusion in hindlimb ischemia models.
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U2 - 10.3791/63284(2022)
DO - 10.3791/63284(2022)
M3 - Article
C2 - 35377355
AN - SCOPUS:85127487229
VL - 2022
JO - Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
JF - Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
SN - 1940-087X
IS - 181
M1 - e63284
ER -