Shalgum A, Marques-Sampaio B P S, Dafalla A, Pereira-Sampaio M A
Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health, Tuskegee University, AL 36088, USA.
Anat Histol Embryol. 2012 Apr;41(2):130-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2011.01112.x. Epub 2011 Oct 24.
Intrarenal anatomy was studied in detail to evaluate how useful rabbits could be as a urologic model. Only one renal artery was observed, which was divided into dorsal and ventral branches in all cases. Three segmental arteries (cranial, mesorenal and caudal) was the most frequent branching pattern found in both the dorsal and ventral division. There was an important artery related to the ureteropelvic junction in both dorsal and ventral surfaces in all specimens. The cranial pole was supplied by both dorsal and ventral divisions of the renal artery in 23 of 41 casts (56%). Although the cranial pole of the rabbit kidney could be useful as a model because of the resemblances with human kidney, the different relationship between the intrarenal arteries and the kidney collecting system in other regions of the kidney must be taken into consideration by the urologists, when using rabbit kidney in urological research.
对肾内解剖结构进行了详细研究，以评估兔子作为泌尿系统模型的实用性。仅观察到一条肾动脉，在所有情况下该肾动脉均分为背侧和腹侧分支。三条节段动脉（头侧、肾中及尾侧）是在背侧和腹侧分支中最常见的分支模式。在所有标本的背侧和腹侧表面均有一条与输尿管肾盂交界处相关的重要动脉。在41个铸型标本中的23个（56%）中，肾动脉的背侧和腹侧分支均为肾头极供血。尽管兔肾的头极因其与人肾相似而可作为一种模型，但泌尿外科医生在将兔肾用于泌尿外科研究时，必须考虑肾内动脉与肾其他区域集合系统之间的不同关系。
