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Medicine
A Model of Free Tissue Transfer: The Rat Epigastric Free Flap
Diogo Casal 1,4, Diogo Pais 1, Inês Iria 3,4, Eduarda Mota-Silva 5, Maria-Angélica Almeida 2, Sara Alves 6, Cláudia Pen 6, Ana Farinho 4, Luís Mascarenhas-Lemos 1,6, José Ferreira-Silva 6, Mário Ferraz-Oliveira 6, Valentina Vassilenko 5, Paula A. Videira 3,4, João Gory O'Neill 1,5
1Anatomy Department, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department and Burn Unit, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central - Hospital de São José, 3UCIBIO, Life Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 4CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 5Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, LIBPhys, 6Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central – Hospital de São José
This paper describes the steps required to raise a fasciocutaneous epigastric free flap and transfer it to the neck in the rat.
Medicine
Functional and Physiological Methods of Evaluating Median Nerve Regeneration in the Rat
Diogo Casal *1,2, Eduarda Mota-Silva *3, Inês Iria 4,5, Diogo Pais 1, Ana Farinho 6, Sara Alves 7, Cláudia Pen 7, Luís Mascarenhas-Lemos 7, José Ferreira-Silva 7, Mário Ferraz-Oliveira 7, Valentina Vassilenko 3, Paula A. Videira 4,5, João Goyri-O'Neill 1
1Anatomy Department, NOVA Medical School, 2Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department and Burn Unit, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, 3Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, LIBPhys, 4Glycoimmunology, CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, 5UCIBIO, Life Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 6Tissue Repair Unit, CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, 7Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central
Presented is a protocol to produce different types of median nerve (MN) lesions and repair in the rat. Additionally, the protocol shows how to evaluate the functional recovery of the nerve using several noninvasive behavioral tests and physiological measurements.
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