Kidney Perfusion
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The Mouse Isolated Perfused Kidney Technique
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2016
The mouse isolated perfused kidney (MIPK) is a technique for keeping a mouse kidney under ex vivo conditions perfused and functional for 1 hr. The buffers and surgical technique are described in detail.
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Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Rat Kidneys for Transplantation
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2026
This protocol describes the ex vivo normothermic machine perfusion of a rat kidney for subsequent transplantation into a recipient rat.
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Normothermic Ex Vivo Kidney Perfusion for the Preservation of Kidney Grafts prior to Transplantation
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2015
The severe organ shortage has resulted in increased use of marginal kidney grafts for transplantation. This has triggered interest in alternative storage methods, since marginal grafts especially tolerate cold storage poorly. The technique of normothermic ex vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) represents a novel preservation method for kidney grafts prior to transplantation.
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Steps for the Autologous Ex vivo Perfused Porcine Liver-kidney Experiment
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2013
Study of the animal organ physiology can be achieved by performing an experimental ex vivo perfusion system. The addition of a porcine kidney, as a homeostatic organ to our previously developed ex vivo liver perfusion model can be a principal step to achieve a better physiological environment.
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Preparation of Decellularized Rat Kidney: A Procedure to Generate Acellular Vascularized Whole-organ Scaffold from a Harvested Rat Kidney
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2023
This video describes the preparation of a decellularized rat kidney. The obtained acellular vascular scaffold can serve as a promising platform for tissue engineering of organ grafts.
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The afferent arteriole delivers blood into the glomerulus, while the efferent arteriole provides the exit pathway. Their relative resistance helps regulate the pressure within the glomerulus, which in turn influences filtration. This arrangement links renal vascular behavior to the movement of solutes and water across the filtration process, making arteriolar control central to renal biochemical function.
Changes in arteriolar resistance help preserve glomerular pressure even when systemic pressure varies. This regulatory relationship supports more stable filtration conditions across changing circulatory states. From a biochemical perspective, maintaining filtration helps sustain the renal handling of electrolytes, metabolic waste, and other solutes rather than allowing these processes to depend entirely on external pressure changes.
Adequate kidney perfusion supports oxygen delivery to renal tissue, clearance of metabolites, electrolyte handling, and elimination of drugs. Reduced or altered flow can therefore affect several biochemical functions at once. Examining perfusion gives researchers a way to connect renal blood supply with changes in solute balance, waste removal, and the persistence of compounds in the body.
Kidney perfusion provides a framework for studying how renal tissue responds when blood supply is insufficient or disrupted. Because perfusion is linked to oxygen delivery, altered flow can be examined alongside ischemic injury and changes in renal function. This connection makes perfusion relevant to research on kidney disease and to evaluating therapeutic responses.
Researchers can investigate kidney perfusion through measurement or modeling of renal blood flow and its vascular behavior. These approaches can examine how arteriolar resistance relates to glomerular pressure and filtration under different systemic pressures. The resulting information helps connect vascular conditions with biochemical outcomes such as metabolite clearance, electrolyte handling, and drug elimination.
Kidney perfusion is especially relevant when a study examines oxygen delivery, metabolic waste clearance, electrolyte balance, or drug elimination. It also provides context for investigating ischemic injury, kidney disease, and responses to therapy. Including perfusion in these studies helps researchers interpret biochemical changes as consequences of altered renal blood supply rather than as isolated molecular events.