title: Preparation of Partial-Thickness Burn Wounds in Rodents Using a New Experimental Burning Device.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The manual application of hot water or hot metal to an animal's skin surface is often used to prepare burn wound models. However, manual burn creation is subject to human variability. We developed a new device that can control the temperature, time, and pressure of contact to produce precise and reproducible animal burn wounds and investigated the conditions required to prepare various burn wounds using our new device.
  
  
  METHODS
  We prepared burn wounds on F344 rats using 3 contact times 2, 4, and 10 seconds using a stamp heated to 80°C. We observed the wound-healing process macroscopically and histologically and evaluated the burn depth using a laser speckle contrast-imaging device, which evaluated the blood flow of the wound.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The changes in the burned area over time, tissue perfusion of the burn wounds, histological evaluation of the burn depth by hematoxylin-eosin and azocarmine and aniline blue staining, and the epithelialization rate (the ratio of the epithelialized area to the wound length) were evaluated on histological sections. Results indicated that the burn wounds prepared with contact times of 2, 4, and 10 seconds corresponded to superficial dermal burns, deep dermal burns, and full-thickness burns, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We demonstrated that partial- and full-thickness burn wounds can be precisely and reproducibly created with our new automated burning device.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto; †Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka; ‡Department of Biomedical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Michiharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.forename: Shuichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ogino
authors.forename: Chizuru
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jinno
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kawaguchi
authors.forename: Katsuya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kawai
authors.forename: Shigehiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002056:Burns / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D055615:Electrical Equipment and Supplies; D006358:Hot Temperature / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D023421:Models, Animal; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344 / Q000293:injuries*; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors