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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-9-27
pubmed:abstractText
Reduced-size liver transplantation in the rat has been useful in the study of hepatic regeneration. We describe a modified technique for partial liver transplantation in the rat using a 50% reduced-size graft. Male Lewis rats (RT1(1)), weighing 250 to 280 g, were used as donors and recipients. The harvested donor liver was placed in 4 degrees C cold saline and graft reduction was performed ex situ by resecting the left lateral lobe, the left portion of the median lobe, and the caudate lobes. The reduced graft was composed of the right portion of the median lobe and the right lobe, weighing 5.33 +/- O.58 g (53.6 +/- 2.2% of the donor liver before reduction, n=7). The recipient 1-week survival rate was 85.7%. The use of reduced livers permits the study of host responses to a deficient graft. This technique provides another choice of liver volume to be implanted and allows the study of regeneration of small-for-size livers more precisely in combination with more extensive graft reduction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0041-1337
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
62
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
292-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Fifty-percent partial liver transplantation in the rat.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article