Hi!
When I used to do whole body perfusion, it tooks me around 10 minutes to
perfuse with 0,9% salin and another 10 minutes with PFA. (Sorry, I haven´t
with me the rpm) but it was around 300 ml of each.
I think you have to increase the amount of 0,9% salin you perfuse (because
you have increased the circuit) to avoid clot formation.
I hope you find it useful and I wish you good luck!
Ignacio Ruz-Caracuel
Medical Student, Histology Intern Student
Faculty of Medicine,
University of Córdoba
SPAIN
2013/7/17 Leila Etemadi leila.etem...@med.lu.se
Hi,
I am desperately looking for an answer to my problem in perfusion
procedure.
What is my problem?
To explain that I thought first I may clear what is my usual routin.
I used to perfuse rat's brain through this procedure:
1- Anesthetise animal with sufficient amount of pentobarbital.
2- Clamp the vessel lying beside vertebra in the back, and then using a
perfusion pump with an 17 or 18 gauge blunted needle inserted into the
ascending aorta.
3- Washout blood with 0.9% salin ( room temperature), 150-200 ml, 76 rpm
speed ( usually I wait to see the out put solution from the heart is not
looking so red/ blood look like).
4- Switch to the 4% cold paraformaldehyde ( with buffer, 7.4 pH) ( on ice
cold), 150-200 ml, 46 rpm speed. ( some times I can see the formalin dance
but not always !).
5- after using this amount of PFA normally the neck part is quite stiff,
then animal will be decapitated. I extract the brain right away, postfix in
PFA over the night ( 4°c in the refrigerator).
6- Move to the sucrose 20%. When I saw brain is sinking in the solution (
which normally it happens in one and half day), I freeze the brain on dry
ice quickly.
The results of this procedure is good enough histology after dissection
with cryostat ( 12-20µm).
For my recent project I need brain and spinal cord both so basically I
skip clamping the back
along vertebra to circulate solution through whole body ( I didn't change
any other steps, so I do
exactly whatever I mentioned above except for spinal cord post fixation in
PFA is about 2 hours).
After sectioning ( 16µm), I've got a proper tissue from spinal cord but
when it comes to the
brain result is quite different !!, when I replaced my sections on the
slide ( with plus charge),
suddenly a lot of hole began to shaped in the tissue which practically
ruined the entire
piece..!!!,
First I had no clue for what I could see but then I noticed during post
fixation procedure, when I
transfer brain from PFA solution to the sucrose, brain is sinking right
away ( it is not
floating at all, as it suppose to do..) !
So I've run another perfusion procedure but this time when I reached to
the washing out by cold
PFA I didn't decreased the pump speed ( as normally I decrease it from 76
rpm to 46 rpm,
this time I run whole procedure with the speed of 76 rpm), on the other
hand I used more PFA
solution ( about 350 ml PFA). After extracting brain I noticed brain was
looking dried up.
during post fixation and cryoprotection procedure (sucrose solution),
sinking was looking normal,
but after sectioning of course brain tissue was destroyed again!!!
Now, I need your expert advices for my problem. I apologise for my naivety
on this subject in advance.
Humbly appreciate for your great time and attention in advance. I severely
looking forward to your help and valuable tips.
With the best,
Leila
Leila Etemadi
M.Sc., Ph.D Candidate
Neuronano Research Center (NRC)
Lund University, BMC F10
Sweden
Tel: +46-46-2221503tel:+46-46-2221503
E-mail: leila.etem...@med.lu.semailto:leila.etem...@med.lu.se
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