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A Peptide Array-Based Detection of Anti-donor HLA Alloantibodies in Organ Recipients
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2025
This video demonstrates an assay to detect anti-donor HLA alloantibodies in organ recipients. A peptide array is synthesized to represent potential epitopes for antibody-mediated organ rejection. The array is incubated with the recipient's serum, containing alloantibodies that bind to their target epitopes. Antibody binding is detected using chemiluminescence to identify donor-specific HLA epitopes that incite alloantibody reactivity.
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Organ Conditioned Medium: Generating Medium from Harvested Organ Cells for Metastatic Cancer Studies
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2023
This video describes a method of generating an organ conditioned medium derived from the mouse liver. This model system can be used to identify and study organ-derived soluble factors and their effects on the organ tropism and metastatic behavior of cancer cells.
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Harvesting Articular Cartilage From Joints of an Equine Donor: A Surgical Procedure to Isolate Vascular Connective Tissue From Cadaveric Joints of an Equine Donor
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2025
In this video, we demonstrate the extraction of articular cartilage from an equine cadaveric joint. The isolated articular cartilage can be used for further downstream analysis.
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Harvest of Vestibular End-Organs under Physiologic Conditions during Labyrinthectomy
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2024
Here, we describe a technique for harvesting human vestibular end-organs under physiologic conditions during labyrinthectomy and their analysis using immunostaining.
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Single Port Donor Nephrectomy
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2011
Single port laparoscopic surgery is changing the standard of care in surgical care like nothing since the laparoscopic technique was introduced 20 years ago. We present out technique of single port donor nephrectomy using the Gelpoint device. We have successfully performed this surgery in 100 patients.
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Maintaining blood flow and oxygenation when possible helps preserve organ condition before retrieval. This support is especially important because tissue viability depends on physiologic support and finite time limits. Biologically, the team is protecting each organ’s usable state until removal, preservation, and transport can occur, increasing the opportunity for successful transplantation.
Flushing organs with preservation solution, cooling them, and transporting them promptly form a connected preservation sequence. These measures help maintain viability after removal, when normal circulation is no longer available. Because each organ has time limits for viability, delays or inadequate preservation can reduce the opportunity to use it for transplantation.
Medical teams assess donor suitability alongside compatibility and infection screening. Suitability therefore depends on more than whether an organ can be removed: clinicians must consider whether its condition supports transplantation and whether relevant biological or infectious concerns have been addressed. This assessment helps guide which retrieved organs can proceed toward recipient transplantation.
Compatibility assessment helps determine whether a retrieved organ is appropriate for a potential recipient, while infection screening identifies risks that must be considered before transplantation. These checks connect donor evaluation with recipient safety and clinical decision-making. Together, they help transplant teams use recovered organs responsibly rather than treating retrieval as an isolated surgical event.
After authorization, teams assess donor suitability, maintain blood flow and oxygenation when possible, and surgically remove organs while minimizing tissue damage. The retrieved organs are then flushed with preservation solution, cooled, and transported. Surgeons, critical-care specialists, transplant organizations, and laboratories coordinate these stages so preservation, screening, compatibility, and timing remain aligned.
The process links intensive medical support, surgery, laboratory assessment, preservation, and transportation. Surgeons retrieve organs, critical-care specialists help maintain donor physiology when possible, laboratories contribute screening, and transplant organizations coordinate the broader pathway. Because compatibility, infection status, tissue protection, and viability limits must be handled together, no single team can manage the entire process alone.