Small animal models of localized heart irradiation.
| Autor: | Boerma M; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Division of Radiation Health, Little Rock, AR, United States. Electronic address: mboerma@uams.edu., Sridharan V; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Division of Radiation Health, Little Rock, AR, United States., Krager KJ; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Division of Radiation Health, Little Rock, AR, United States., Pawar SA; SUNY Upstate Medical University, Department of Radiation Oncology, Syracuse, NY, United States. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Methods in cell biology [Methods Cell Biol] 2022; Vol. 168, pp. 221-234. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 31. |
| DOI: | 10.1016/bs.mcb.2021.12.016 |
| Abstrakt: | A subset of cancer patients treated with radiation therapy may experience radiation-induced heart disease (RIHD) that develops within weeks to several years after cancer treatment. Rodent models are most commonly used to examine the biological effects of local X-rays in the heart and test potential strategies to reduce RIHD. While developments in technology over the last decades have changed the procedures for local heart irradiation in animal models, the X-ray settings and radiation doses have remained quite consistent in time and between different research laboratories. This chapter provides a protocol for whole heart irradiation in rodent models, using an X-ray machine with cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) capabilities. Some methods for the quantification of common histological changes after whole heart irradiation in the rodent are also described. (Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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