The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Behavior

A Simple Technique to Assay Locomotor Activity in Drosophila

Xiang Long¹, Huanhuan Du¹, Mengni Jiang¹, Hongrui Meng^1,2

¹Institute of Neuroscience, Soochow University, ²Department of Neurology and Clinical Research Center of Neurological Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

The present protocol assesses the locomotor activity of Drosophila by tracking and analyzing the movement of flies in a hand-made arena using open-source software Fiji, compatible with plugins to segment pixels of each frame based on high-definition video recording to calculate parameters of speed, distance, etc.

Medicine

Novel Mini-open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

Kelv Shen^*1, Yuhang Ma^*2, Zhendong Huang¹, Zhengfeng Lu¹

¹Department of Orthopedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, ²Department of Orthopedics, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan

The protocol introduces a novel mini-open TLIF, which can significantly reduce intraoperative blood loss, achieving minimally invasive outcomes with enhanced recovery.