A cryogenic pulverization method to process murine paws using a liquid nitrogen freezer mill was developed to improve the yield and quality of RNA or protein extracted from the tissues and enable the analysis of molecular profiles associated with inflammatory responses.
Jones, B., Hitchcock, S., Loza, M., Malaviya, R., Ort, T., Shen, F. A Cryo-pulverization Protocol for Processing Mouse Paws to Evaluate Molecular Pathways of Tissue Inflammation in a Collagen Induced Arthritis Model. J. Vis. Exp. (152), e60229, doi:10.3791/60229 (2019).