Organ-specific metabolic profiles of the liver and kidney during brain death and afterwards during normothermic machine perfusion of the kidney

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We investigated metabolic changes during brain death (BD) using hyperpolarized magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy and ex vivo graft glucose metabolism during normothermic isolated perfused kidney (IPK) machine perfusion. BD was induced in mechanically ventilated rats by inflation of an epidurally placed catheter; sham-operated rats served as controls. Hyperpolarized [1-13C]pyruvate MR spectroscopy was performed to quantify pyruvate metabolism in the liver and kidneys at 3 time points during BD, preceded by injecting hyperpolarized[1-13C]pyruvate. Following BD, glucose oxidation was measured using tritium-labeled glucose (d-6-3H-glucose) during IPK reperfusion. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction and biochemistry were performed on tissue/plasma. Immediately following BD induction, lactate increased in both organs (liver: eµd0.21, 95% confidence interval [CI] [−0.27, −0.15]; kidney: eµd0.26, 95% CI [−0.40, −0.12]. After 4 hours of BD, alanine production decreased in the kidney (eµd0.14, 95% CI [0.03, 0.25], P

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van Erp, A. C., Qi, H., Jespersen, N. R., Hjortbak, M. V., Ottens, P. J., Wiersema-Buist, J., … Jespersen, B. (2020). Organ-specific metabolic profiles of the liver and kidney during brain death and afterwards during normothermic machine perfusion of the kidney. American Journal of Transplantation, 20(9), 2425–2436. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajt.15885

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