TY - JOUR
T1 - Standardized Protocol for the Preparation of Precision-Cut Kidney Slices:
T2 - A Translational Model of Renal Fibrosis
AU - Jensen, Michael Schou
AU - Merrild, Camilla
AU - Nørregaard, Rikke
AU - Olinga, Peter
AU - Mutsaers, Henricus A M
N1 - © 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Renal fibrosis is a hallmark of progressive renal diseases. To date, there is a lack of effective therapeutics for the treatment of renal fibrosis, in part due to the scarcity of clinically relevant translational disease models. Since the early 1920s, hand-cut tissue slices have been used as a means to better understand organ (patho)physiology in a variety of scientific fields. From that time, the equipment and methodology for the preparation of tissue slices has continuously improved, thereby expanding the applicability of the model. Nowadays, precision-cut kidney slices (PCKS) have been demonstrated to be an extremely valuable translation model for renal (patho)physiology, bridging the gap between preclinical and clinical research. A key feature of PCKS is that the slices contain all cell types and acellular components of the whole organ in the original configuration while preserving cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. In this chapter, we describe how to prepare PCKS and how the model can be implemented in fibrosis research.
AB - Renal fibrosis is a hallmark of progressive renal diseases. To date, there is a lack of effective therapeutics for the treatment of renal fibrosis, in part due to the scarcity of clinically relevant translational disease models. Since the early 1920s, hand-cut tissue slices have been used as a means to better understand organ (patho)physiology in a variety of scientific fields. From that time, the equipment and methodology for the preparation of tissue slices has continuously improved, thereby expanding the applicability of the model. Nowadays, precision-cut kidney slices (PCKS) have been demonstrated to be an extremely valuable translation model for renal (patho)physiology, bridging the gap between preclinical and clinical research. A key feature of PCKS is that the slices contain all cell types and acellular components of the whole organ in the original configuration while preserving cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. In this chapter, we describe how to prepare PCKS and how the model can be implemented in fibrosis research.
KW - Fibrosis
KW - Humans
KW - Kidney Diseases/metabolism
KW - Kidney/metabolism
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-0716-3179-9_9
DO - 10.1007/978-1-0716-3179-9_9
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37423986
SN - 1064-3745
VL - 2664
SP - 123
EP - 134
JO - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
JF - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
ER -