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A mouse model of ischemic spinal cord injury with delayed paralysis caused by aortic cross-clamping.


ABSTRACT: Spinal cord ischemia and paralysis are devastating perioperative complications that can accompany open or endovascular repair surgery for aortic aneurysms. Here, we report on the development of a new mouse model of spinal cord ischemia with delayed paralysis induced by cross-clamping the descending aorta.Transient aortic occlusion was produced in mice by cross-clamping the descending aorta through a lateral thoracotomy. To establish an optimal surgical procedure with limited mortality, variable cross-clamp times and core temperatures were tested between experiments.The onset of paresis or paralysis and postsurgical mortality varied as a function of cross-clamp time and core temperature that was maintained during the period of cross-clamp. Using optimal surgical parameters (7.5-min cross-clamp duration at 33°C core temperature), the onset of paralysis is delayed 24-36 h after reperfusion, and more than 95% of mice survive through 9 weeks after surgery. These mice are further stratified into two groups, 70% (n = 19/27) of mice developing severe hind limb paralysis and the remaining mice showing mild, though still permanent, behavioral deficits.This new model should prove useful as a preclinical tool for screening neuroprotective therapeutics and for defining the basic biologic mechanisms that cause delayed paralysis and neurodegeneration after transient spinal cord ischemia.

SUBMITTER: Awad H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2945453 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A mouse model of ischemic spinal cord injury with delayed paralysis caused by aortic cross-clamping.

Awad Hamdy H   Ankeny Daniel P DP   Guan Zhen Z   Wei Ping P   McTigue Dana M DM   Popovich Phillip G PG  

Anesthesiology 20101001 4


<h4>Background</h4>Spinal cord ischemia and paralysis are devastating perioperative complications that can accompany open or endovascular repair surgery for aortic aneurysms. Here, we report on the development of a new mouse model of spinal cord ischemia with delayed paralysis induced by cross-clamping the descending aorta.<h4>Methods</h4>Transient aortic occlusion was produced in mice by cross-clamping the descending aorta through a lateral thoracotomy. To establish an optimal surgical procedur  ...[more]

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