Jennifer

We routinely perform this on mouse aortas, it quite labor intensive and
requires a person that has the patience and good attention to detail to do
the job correctly.  It all starts from correctly dissecting out the aorta
from the animal initially, but I would guess that rat aortas would be easier
than a mouse and we routinely perform this on mouse aortas.  I can send the
person a powerpoint presentation that might help.  I do not have time to
help this week, but possibly the middle of next week they could contact me
and I could forward the information that I have on the technique.

Liz

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-----Original Message-----
From: histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-bounces@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Jennifer
MacDonald
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:25 PM
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Sudan IV staining

A researcher at an area hospital has asked for some help performing Sudan 
IV staining of rat aortas.  She would like to look for atherosclerotic 
lesions by en face analysis.  I am not familiar with this.  I have 
reviewed the paper she is using as a reference and it does not go into 
detail about the staining protocol for this.  The journal article is 
entitled " Synthetic LXR ligand inhibits the development of 
atherosclerosis in mice 
(http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/11/7604).
Is there anyone on the histonet who performs en face analysis and can 
help?

Thank you,
Jennifer MacDonald
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