TY - BOOK AB - An organ such as the kidney naturally functions best in a healthy organism. Once a kidney has been removed from its normal context, it is crucial to find the optimal compromise between the demands of the problem at issue and the experimental model to be adopted. An isolated kidney is, in effect, a “dying kidney”, although it may continue to function for between 1 and 4 hours, depending on one's definition of normal. The basic reason for the progressive deterioration in function can be found in the stresses set up by the transition from perfusion by whole blood to the use of a more or less artificial perfusing medium. Indeed, blood is a “liquid organ”, a highly complex cocktail that is steadily being reconditioned by the actions of other organs, and this complexity explains why all efforts to maintain kidney function in isolation are ultimately doomed to failure. If we want to approach its fantastic properties, then we should leave an organ as the kidney within the body. As Mephisto remarks in Goethe's drama “Faust”, Studierzimmer II: “Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft”: “blood is a quite special juice”. AU - Schurek, Hans-Joachim DA - 2017 DO - 10.17879/61219766654 KW - isoliert perfundierte Niere KW - Sauerstoff KW - Modellvarianten KW - Konzentrierfähigkeit KW - isolated perfused kidney KW - oxygen KW - different modalities KW - concentrating capacity LA - eng N1 - Auch im Buchhandel erhältlich: A Laboratory Manual of Kidney Perfusion Techniques / Hans-Joachim Schurek; In collaboration with Klaus Hinrich Neumann, Frank Schweda and Jan Czogalla. – Münster : Münsterscher Verlag für Wissenschaft, 2017. – VIII, 228 S. (Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster : Reihe V ; Bd. 6), ISBN 978-3-8405-0154-8, Preis: 71,50 EUR N1 - Deutsche Ausgabe 2015 unter dem Titel "Laborhandbuch Nierenperfusion" erschienen, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-88219516586, https://doi.org/10.17879/67229530894 N1 - The book was also published on the bookshelf of the National Library Medicine: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK565898/. PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-8405-0154-8 TI - A laboratory manual of kidney perfusion techniques UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-22259740573 Y2 - 2024-11-23T22:14:48 ER -