Working with stereotaxic surgery?
Having trouble with stereotaxic surgery in Small Animals?
We know how hard is to work with stereotaxic procedures! To improve your research, we will provide you some tips!
You must have a Brain Atlas!
Using MRI techniques, some researches were able to develop a Brain Atlas for some species. Boris Odintsov from Biomedical Imaging Center at the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois and Thomas Brozoski, a professor at the South Southern Illinois University School of Medicine have created a comprehensive and interactive rat brain atlas.
The objective of their project was to derive a high-resolution digital brain atlas of in situ MR images from adult Long Evans rats suitable to help others researches in stereotaxic surgery applications.
The atlas provides brain images in three viewing planes indexed to the skull surface as well as to two skull landmarks. It also is available in a .pdf version, so we don’t need any special software to use this tool.
Odinstov said: "This atlas can be universal. The present MRI atlas, to our knowledge, is the first available for adult Long-Evans rats, a pigmented strain widely used in behavioral and perceptual research. In our work, we try to find correlations between animals, in particular, the rat brain structure, and make conclusions that can be applicable to humans.”
Next steps?
The researchers hope to develop a comprehensive version of this MRI based atlas using the human brain. This will aid in research and medical diagnoses.
Stereotaxic Digital
BrainSupport Corporation provides a great tool to help researches with stereotaxic surgery! Digital Stereotaxic devices provide users with the ability to performs micro-surgeries on rodents with greater speed and accuracy to the resolution in order of 10ths of microns.
You can see more at BrainLatam
If you have any interest in this topic or need any help with your research, please contact us!
Some interesting links are:
Atlas of older brains could help diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
This article was based in https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-10-rat-brain-atlas-images-stereotaxic.html
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