With years of non-stop exploration, Creative Biolabs has established plenty of NHP disease models ranging from cardiovascular, neurological, renal disease to optical impact and burn model. Amongst these models, neurological disorders are one of our primary focus. We now provide well-established NHP models of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) to help our global customers with their cutting-edge projects.
Advantages of non-human primates (NHPs) models
Neuroscience has greatly improved the understanding of a wide range of neurological disorders and facilitates the development of effective treatment scheme and drugs. Non-human primates (NHPs) are known to highly resemble human in behavioral and physiological characteristics. More importantly, they have a vertebrate brain with similar neural circuitry to humans that make them more accurate and valuable models of neurological diseases than other animals like rats, rabbits and so on.
What is middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO)?
Stroke is one of the most frequent causes of death and adult disability. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic and hemorrhagic. Ischemic stroke caused by lack of blood flow accounts for about 80~90% of the incidence of stroke. The middle cerebral artery is one common focus of human ischemic stroke, so it is widely believed that middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) is a standard animal model of focal cerebral ischemia. Occlusion of the middle cerebral artery can result in following defects: sensory loss of the contralateral face and arm, contralateral neglect syndrome (usually caused by damage to the right hemisphere), aphasia (usually caused by damage to the left hemisphere), paralysis (-plegia) or weakness (-paresis) of the contralateral face and arm, etc.
MCAO models provided by Creative Biolabs
There are several kinds of methods building MCAO models, such as vessel pressure, operation through orbit, brain vessel embolism, vessel line-occluding, photochemistry method, and craniotomy. We are capable of using microneurosurgery technique to build MCAO models. We provide optional micro catheter embolization or blood vessel clamping method through-pterion, orbital or supraorbital operation. We also provide follow-up tests including:
Creative Biolabs offers guaranteed MCAO modeling service based on our advanced technology platform and extensive expertise. We are glad to offer one-stop, custom-oriented service package from initial model establishment to final data analysis. Alternative neurological disease models are also available, like Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, cerebral infarction, cerebral stroke, etc. Please feel free to contact us for further discussions.
Creative Biolabs offers various Neurological Disease Models you may be interested in:
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