Porcine models of organ transplantation provide an important platform to study mechanisms of organ preservation. This article describes a heterotopic porcine renal autotransplantation model, which allows investigating new approaches to improve the outcome of transplantation using marginal kidney grafts.
Kaths, J. M., Echeverri, J., Goldaracena, N., Louis, K. S., Yip, P., John, R., Mucsi, I., Ghanekar, A., Bagli, D., Selzner, M., Robinson, L. A. Heterotopic Renal Autotransplantation in a Porcine Model: A Step-by-Step Protocol. J. Vis. Exp. (108), e53765, doi:10.3791/53765 (2016).