MCAO Starter Kits

Doccol provides MCAO (middle cerebral artery occlusion) sutures for inducing ischemic stroke models in rats and mice since 2004, Doccol products are referred by over a thousand scholarly articles. MCAO sutures are silicone-rubber coated nylon monofilaments, in which the silicone-rubber coating is engineered for ensuring a complete occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) origin while avoiding subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Using Doccol MCAO sutures for inducing stroke models has been widely accepted as a necessary technical step, and it is also a new standard for ensuring the highest quality of stroke modeling.  Using Doccol MCAO sutures for inducing stroke models has been reported to be able to drastically decrease the within-group variation of stroke models, reducing the standard deviation (SD) to 5% of the mean value for infarction volume. For more information please read Doccol Made a Difference in Stroke Modeling.

Doccol also provides sorted MCAO (middle cerebral artery occlusion) sutures of different diameters and coating lengths (SSK series) for surgeons to find out their optimal MCAO sutures. These starter kits also include a pair of silver marker pen for marking the bare filaments. Please don't hesitate to contact Doccol if you need to customize your MCAO sutures.