Establishing a rat model of spastic cerebral palsy by targeted ethanol injection
Yadong Yu
Liang Li
Xinzhong Shao
Fangtao Tian
Qinglu Sun
摘要：Spastic cerebral palsy is general y considered to result from cerebral cortical or pyramidal tract damage. Here, we precisely targeted the left pyramidal tract of 2-month-old Sprague-Dawley rats placed on a stereotaxic instrument under intraperitoneal anesthesia. Based on the rat brain ste-reotaxic map, a 1-mm hole was made 10 mm posterior to bregma and 0.8 mm left of sagittal suture. A microsyringe was inserted perpendicularly to the surface of the brain to a depth of 9.7 mm, and 15μL of ethanol was slowly injected to establish a rat model of spastic cerebral palsy. After modeling, the rats appeared to have necrotic voids in the pyramidal tract and exhibited typical signs and symptoms of flexion spasms that lasted for a long period of time. These findings indicate that this is an effective and easy method of establishing a rat model of spastic cerebral palsy with good re-producibility. Ethanol as a chemical ablation agent specifical y and thoroughly damages the pyra-midal tract, and therefore, the animals display flexion spasms, which are a typical symptom of the disease.
机标关键词：ethanol injectioncerebral palsysigns and symptomsrat modelchemical ablationlong periodmethod of
论文发表日期：2013-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：8( 3255-3262 )
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