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Kidneys
New kidneys study findings have been published by scientists at Aarhus University
April 14th, 2009
According to a study from Aarhus, Denmark, "Vascular complications after renal transplantation causing initially only partial renal ischemia can be difficult to discover in time to save the kidney. Our aims were to design an animal model allowing progressive and stepwise reduction of the arterial renal blood flow (RBF) and to investigate whether microdialysis could detect the subsequent metabolic changes." "Eight pigs were used. Two microdialysis catheters were placed, one in the lateral renal cortex, the other just outside the renal capsule. Baseline measurements were obtained at steady state. Five injections of 100 A-polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) particles were administered...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-04-14)
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