A new apparatus for standardized rat kidney biopsy.

Survival biopsies are frequently applied in rat kidney disease models, but several drawbacks such as surgical kidney trauma, bleeding risk and variable loss of kidney tissue are still unsolved. Therefore, we developed an easy-to-use core biopsy instrument and evaluated whether two consecutive kidney...

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Main Authors: Holger Schirutschke, Lars Gladrow, Christian Norkus, Simon Paul Parmentier, Bernd Hohenstein, Christian P M Hugo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4266664?pdf=render