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Intravenous Microinjections of Zebrafish Larvae to Study Acute Kidney Injury
 

Intravenous Microinjections of Zebrafish Larvae to Study Acute Kidney Injury

Article DOI: 10.3791/2079
August 4th, 2010

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Summary August 4th, 2010

We describe a technique of microinjecting the aminoglycoside, gentamicin, into 2 days post-fetilization (dpf) zebrafish larvae to induce acute kidney injury (AKI). We also describe a method for whole mount immunohistochemistry, plastic embedding and sectioning of zebrafish larvae to visualize the AKI mediated damage.

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