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A Multimodal Study of Late Gadolinium Enhancement in Uremic Cardiomyopathy: Association of ECM Changes with Gadolinium Deposition

Article D Peer reviewed Preclinical

Key takeaways

Researchers used 12 rats to study how kidney disease changes the heart. They gave the rats a special dye to see where it settled in the heart tissue. This was done in animals, not people, so it is not yet a test for humans. The goal is to understand how kidney damage affects the heart structure.

Who did this work

Julia Hahndorf (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) · Bernhard Hesse · Valentina Alberini (Technische Universität Berlin) · Darío Ferreira Sánchez (Paul Scherrer Institute) · Daniel Grolimund (Paul Scherrer Institute) · Jessica Saatz (Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing) · Heike Traub (Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing) · Azadeh Mohtashamdolatshahi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) · Nicola Stolzenburg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) · Jörg Schnorr (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) · Christian Freise (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) · Susanne Metzkow (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Source

Article · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-21
https://doi.org/10.1021/cbmi.6c00085