We describe the isolation of cardiac extracellular matrix from C57Bl/6J control mice, tight-skin mice, and tight-skin mice treated with the IRF5 inhibitory peptide. We also describe the vasodilation studies on the isolated vessels from C57Bl/6J, tight-skin mice and tight-skin mice treated with the IRF5 inhibitory peptide.
Weihrauch, D., Krolikowski, J. G., Jones, D. W., Zaman, T., Bamkole, O., Struve, J., Pagel, P. S., Lohr, N. L., Pritchard, Jr., K. A. Vasodilation of Isolated Vessels and the Isolation of the Extracellular Matrix of Tight-skin Mice. J. Vis. Exp. (121), e55036, doi:10.3791/55036 (2017).