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    J Vis Exp. 2009 May 15;(27). pii: 1291. doi: 10.3791/1291.

    Measuring blood pressure in mice using volume pressure recording, a tail-cuff method.

    Daugherty A, Rateri D, Hong L, Balakrishnan A.

    Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Kentucky, KY, USA. Alan.Daugherty@uky.edu

    The CODA 8-Channel High Throughput Non-Invasive Blood Pressure system measures the blood pressure in up to 8 mice or rats simultaneously. The CODA tail-cuff system uses Volume Pressure Recording (VPR) to measure the blood pressure by determining the tail blood volume. A specially designed differential pressure transducer and an occlusion tail-cuff measure the total blood volume in the tail without the need to obtain the individual pulse signal. Special attention is afforded to the length of the occlusion cuff in order to derive the most accurate blood pressure readings. VPR can easily obtain readings on dark-skinned rodents, such as C57BL6 mice and is MRI compatible. The CODA system provides you with measurements of six (6) different blood pressure parameters; systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, mean blood pressure, tail blood flow, and tail blood volume. Measurements can be made on either awake or anesthetized mice or rats. The CODA system includes a controller, laptop computer, software, cuffs, animal holders, infrared warming pads, and an infrared thermometer. There are seven different holder sizes for mice as small as 8 grams to rats as large as 900 grams.

    PMID: 19488026 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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