The present protocol describes three methods of administering cardioactive therapeutic agents in a porcine model. Female landrace swine received treatment through either: (1) thoracotomy and transepicardial injection, (2) catheter-based transendocardial injection, or (3) intravenous infusion via jugular vein osmotic minipump.
Selvakumar, D., Wilkie, E., Deshmukh, T., Ravindran, D., Kotake, Y., Lu, J., Barry, T., Tran, V., Paterson, H., Hing, A., Campbell, T., Kumar, S., Kizana, E., Chong, J. J. H. Delivery of Cardioactive Therapeutics in a Porcine Myocardial Infarction Model. J. Vis. Exp. (192), e64177, doi:10.3791/64177 (2023).