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Medicine

Using a Chemical Biopsy for Graft Quality Assessment

Published: June 17th, 2020

DOI:

10.3791/60946

1Department of Pharmacodynamics and Molecular Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, 2Multi Organ Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, 3Department of Transplantology and General Surgery, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Antoni Jurasz University Hospital No. 1 in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 4Department of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital

* These authors contributed equally

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Abstract

Kidney transplantation is a life-saving treatment for a large number of people with end-stage renal dysfunction worldwide. The procedure is associated with an increased survival rate and greater quality of patient’s life when compared to conventional dialysis. Regrettably, transplantology suffers from a lack of reliable methods for organ quality assessment. Standard diagnostic techniques are limited to macroscopic appearance inspection or invasive tissue biopsy, which do not provide comprehensive information about the graft. The proposed protocol aims to introduce solid phase microextraction (SPME) as an ideal analytical method for comprehensive metabolomics and lipidomic analysis of all low molecular compounds present in kidneys allocated for transplantation. The small size of the SPME probe enables performance of a chemical biopsy, which enables extraction of metabolites directly from the organ without any tissue collection. The minimum invasiveness of the method permits execution of multiple analyses over time: directly after organ harvesting, during its preservation, and immediately after revascularization at the recipient’s body. It is hypothesized that the combination of this novel sampling method with a high-resolution mass spectrometer will allow for discrimination of a set of characteristic compounds that could serve as biological markers of graft quality and indicators of possible development of organ dysfunction.

Erratum

Erratum: Using a Chemical Biopsy for Graft Quality Assessment

An erratum was issued for: Using a Chemical Biopsy for Graft Quality Assessment. One of the affiliations was updated.

The third affiliation was updated from:

Department of Transplantation and General Surgery, University Hospital, University of Nicolaus Copernicus Torun"

to:

Department of Transplantology and General Surgery, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Antoni Jurasz University Hospital No. 1 in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz, Poland

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