W P Ries1, Y Marie2, K Patel2, C Turnbull1, T B Smith3, Nsm Jamil4, H Caldwell5, R Telfer1, Dah Neil6, J Nath2, N G Inston2. 1. Medical School, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 2. Department of Renal Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK. 3. Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 4. Department of Cellular Pathology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. 5. Division of Pathology Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK. 6. Department of Histopathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Hypothermic machine perfusion, an organ preservation modality, involves flow of chilled preservation fluid through an allograft's vasculature. This study describes a simple, reproducible, human model that allows for interrogation of flow effects during ex vivo organ perfusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Gonadal veins from deceased human renal allografts were subjected to either static cold storage or hypothermic machine perfusion for up to 24 hours. Caspase-3, Krüppel-like factor 2 expression and electron microscopic analysis were compared between 'flow' and 'no-flow' conditions, with living donor gonadal vein sections serving as negative controls. RESULTS: The increase in caspase-3 expression was less pronounced for hypothermic machine-perfused veins compared with static cold storage (median-fold increase 1.2 vs 2.3; P < 0.05). Transmission electron microscopy provided ultrastructural corroboration of endothelial cell apoptosis in static cold storage conditions. For static cold storage preserved veins, Krüppel-like factor 2 expression diminished in a time-dependent manner between baseline and 12 hours (P < 0.05) but was abrogated and reversed by hypothermic machine perfusion (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our methodology is a simple, reproducible and successful model of ex vivo perfusion in the context of human organ preservation. To demonstrate the model's utility, we establish that two widely used markers of endothelial health (caspase-3 and Krüppel-like factor 2) differ between the flow and no-flow conditions of the two predominant kidney preservation modalities. These findings suggest that ex vivo perfusion may mediate the induction of a biochemically favourable endothelial niche which may contribute tohypothermic machine perfusion's association with improved renal transplantation outcomes.
INTRODUCTION: Hypothermic machine perfusion, an organ preservation modality, involves flow of chilled preservation fluid through an allograft's vasculature. This study describes a simple, reproducible, human model that allows for interrogation of flow effects during ex vivo organ perfusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Gonadal veins from deceased human renal allografts were subjected to either static cold storage or hypothermic machine perfusion for up to 24 hours. Caspase-3, Krüppel-like factor 2 expression and electron microscopic analysis were compared between 'flow' and 'no-flow' conditions, with living donor gonadal vein sections serving as negative controls. RESULTS: The increase in caspase-3 expression was less pronounced for hypothermic machine-perfused veins compared with static cold storage (median-fold increase 1.2 vs 2.3; P < 0.05). Transmission electron microscopy provided ultrastructural corroboration of endothelial cell apoptosis in static cold storage conditions. For static cold storage preserved veins, Krüppel-like factor 2 expression diminished in a time-dependent manner between baseline and 12 hours (P < 0.05) but was abrogated and reversed by hypothermic machine perfusion (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our methodology is a simple, reproducible and successful model of ex vivo perfusion in the context of human organ preservation. To demonstrate the model's utility, we establish that two widely used markers of endothelial health (caspase-3 and Krüppel-like factor 2) differ between the flow and no-flow conditions of the two predominant kidney preservation modalities. These findings suggest that ex vivo perfusion may mediate the induction of a biochemically favourable endothelial niche which may contribute tohypothermic machine perfusion's association with improved renal transplantation outcomes.
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Kidney transplantation; Krüppel-like transcription factors; Organ preservation
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