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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
o.k. details, details please...  This sounds really interesting. |
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Originally Posted by kstar
Wow, we always do eye or caudal veins in rodents. Unless we are doing a cardiac stick.
I don't think I'd ever be able to find the saphenous in a rodent.
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The one thing that you all will learn as vets, ESPECIALLY if you go into lab animal med, is the dun dun daaaa IACUC out of OLAW. And you all get the dubious duty to write the protocols and procedures. So as we have it, we cannot do repeat eye bleeds than once per week and no more than 1/10th of the body weight of the mouse... So since I started working in a hematology lab that studies blood disorders and we have GM mice that have hemaglobinopathies, and need repeated bleedings per week, we are allowed saphenous vein. We only collect 50 ul in heparin coated hematocrit tubes.
If you can do the caudels, you can do the saphenous, they surround the "thigh" part from the hind legs and you use eye ointment to find them. Once you see them, use a 16 gauge needle to stick and once the blood pumps out, you just collect.
Apparently it is enough for the the HemoVet for the "mouse" setting.
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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
I decided. I'm still going to talk to my boss tomorrow, and also some of my professors at school in a couple of weeks, but I've decided to go into cardiology. It was either that, general health care, or orthopedic surgery.
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That would be a WONDERFUL selection!!!
That's my area of expertise. But, I ONLY know the research end of it and not the clinical diagnosis end. It would be VERY nice to work out the imaging technology on the hearts of all animals and the genetic differences between the animals--especially the developmental or the stem regeneration of them... It is not "translatable" as one thinks it is from the research to human clinical trials...