Techniques

Skeletal muscle dissection for whole muscle contractility studies

Training videos showing the dissection and preparation of the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus muscles from the mouse for whole muscle contractility studies.


EDL dissection


Soleus dissection

Skeletal muscle fiber typing (mouse plantaris)

tumor model

Tumor models of bone metastases

x-ray image

X-ray imaging

cachexia

Studies of cancer cachexia

mouse grip strength

Mouse forelimb grip strength

 

 

 

 

EDL physiol

Whole muscle contractility (movie of EDL contraction)

microCT

MicroCT scan