Heart transplantation is a lifesaving procedure,which is limited by the availability of donor hearts.Using hearts from donors after circulatory death,which have sustained global ischemia,requires thorough studies on r...Heart transplantation is a lifesaving procedure,which is limited by the availability of donor hearts.Using hearts from donors after circulatory death,which have sustained global ischemia,requires thorough studies on reliable and reproducible models that developing researchers may not have mastered.By combining the most recent lit-erature and our recommendations based on observations and trials and errors,the methods here detail a sound in vivo heterotopic heart transplantation model for rats in which protective interventions on the ischemic heart can be studied,and thus al-lowing the scientific community to advance organ preservation research.Knowledge gathered from reproducible animal models allow for successful translation to clinical studies.展开更多
文摘Heart transplantation is a lifesaving procedure,which is limited by the availability of donor hearts.Using hearts from donors after circulatory death,which have sustained global ischemia,requires thorough studies on reliable and reproducible models that developing researchers may not have mastered.By combining the most recent lit-erature and our recommendations based on observations and trials and errors,the methods here detail a sound in vivo heterotopic heart transplantation model for rats in which protective interventions on the ischemic heart can be studied,and thus al-lowing the scientific community to advance organ preservation research.Knowledge gathered from reproducible animal models allow for successful translation to clinical studies.
