Journal article
Best practices of heart transplantation in mice
- Abstract:
- Heart transplantation in mice has served as a reliable in vivo model in transplant research worldwide for more than half a century. It is not only useful for addressing cardiac graft-specific questions but also provides mechanistic insights and therapeutic strategies that have broad impact across all solid organ transplants. Compared to other mouse models of solid organ transplantation, such as kidney, lung, or small intestine transplants, the surgical techniques to perform mouse heart transplantation (mHT) are relatively easy to master, and the graft heartbeat offers a simple means to evaluate transplant viability. However, as with other in vivo mouse models, mHT has distinct strengths and limitations. Multiple factors can influence the accuracy and reproducibility of the results, including microsurgical techniques and microsurgeons’ skills, post-op monitoring methodologies, mouse strain combinations, sex/age. As innovative biotechnologies continue to emerge, the future holds many opportunities for preclinical research utilizing the mHT model. It is therefore imperative to provide the field with optimized mHT protocols and maintain standard reporting requirements. This minireview provides a concise summary and recommendations for standardized practices to ensure the accuracy, reproducibility, and translational value of findings generated from mHT model.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.ajt.2025.04.012
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/03g2zjp07
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- American Journal of Transplantation More from this journal
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 1820-1829
- Publication date:
- 2025-04-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2025-04-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1600-6143
- ISSN:
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1600-6135
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2119291
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pubs:2119291
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2025-04-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Elsevier Inc.
- Copyright date:
- 2025
- Rights statement:
- Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of American Society of Transplantation & American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
- Notes:
- The author accepted manuscript (AAM) of this paper has been made available under the University of Oxford's Open Access Publications Policy, and a CC BY public copyright licence has been applied.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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