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Prog Urol
; 21(3): 173-6, 2011 Mar.
Article
in French
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21354034
ABSTRACT
Kidney transplantation in rats is a classic experimental model used in transplant research. As several methods have been previously reported without definition of a gold standard, we describe herein a simple institutional technique that has been used in more than 500 procedures and taught to medical students or surgeons without previous microsurgical experience. Our step-by-step illustrated report would allow French-speaking trainees to learn how to perform kidney transplantation in rats in a reproducible manner and add this valuable tool to their research protocols.