Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Isolated Lung Perfusion System in the Rabbit Model Alejandro Pacheco-Baltazar2, José Luis Arreola-Ramírez1, Jesús Alquicira-Mireles1, Patricia Segura-Medina1 1Departamento de Investigación en Hiperreactividad Bronquial, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, 2Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The isolated rabbit lung preparation is a gold standard tool in pulmonary research. This publication aims to describe the technique as developed for the study of physiological and pathological mechanisms involved in airway reactivity, lung preservation, and preclinical research in lung transplantation and pulmonary edema.
