Liver incision in heparinized mice. The images show incision site in heparinized mice, post application of test material on incised left lobe of liver (right cranial, left caudal). (a) SLac gel, (b) Bax50, (c) GelFoam strip, (d) Puramatrix (RADA) gel, (e) SB50 gel. In each case, the test material is applied to incision site after wiping it with sterile gauze. It is kept for a waiting period of 2 min and wiped away. Profuse bleeding can be seen in every case (indicated by the arrows in a−d) except for when SB50 gel is applied (indicated by the asterisk and arrow in e)).