title: Ventral burn in rats: an experimental model for intravital microscopic study of microcirculation.
abstract: A novel technique of application of controlled ventral scald burn to rodent, whose back is inaccessible because of preburn preparation, is described. Boiling water is applied across a polyethylene membrane that partially envelops the subject. The technique is simple, economical, reproducible and allows intravital microscopic study of microcirculation in a remote muscular bed before and after burn injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Scott and White Clinic, Scott, Sherwood and Brindley Foundation, 702 SW HK Dodgen Loop #206C, Temple, TX 76504, USA. korompai@msn.com
authors.forename: F L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Korompai
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Yuan
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D000818:Animals; D002056:Burns / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation / Q000473:pathology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley