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In this video you will learn how to perform sampling of heart tissue. Use sterile technique when extracting the sample to avoid contamination between samples from different fish. This method is well suited for agents related to myopathies, e.g. SAV (PD), PRV (HSMB), PMCV (CMS).
Step by step
Open the fish as instructed in the film
Take out the heart by grasping the bulbus arteriosus with the use of a sterile tweezer
Use a sterile scalpel blade for the removal of the tip of the heart (ventricle)