Model Systems Core

模型系统核心延续了匹兹堡肾脏研究中心使用创造性的 推动肾脏生理学和病理生理学最新概念进展的方法。这个目标 生物医学资源的核心是提供一系列多样化的创新模型系统， 研究人员探索肾脏发育，功能和系统生理学在正常和疾病状态。的 核心分为三个亚核心，从简单的单细胞生物延伸到复杂的整个动物 模型利用遗传上易处理的有机体S。cerevisiae，酵母模型子核心 为分析在肾脏生理学中起重要作用的保守基因提供了一个工具箱， 蛋白质稳态上皮模型子核心提供了高保真永生化近端和远端 肾小管细胞系、原代细胞分离和最先进的人肾类器官，用于开发 疾病模型，肾单位发育、代谢、功能和对损伤的反应的分析。动物 Models Subcore提供了一系列广泛的方法来评估啮齿动物的肾脏生理学， 病理生理学、相关心血管变量、线粒体健康和生物能量学以及嘌呤 代谢组学利用由其既定调查员和生产率记录支持的基础设施， 模型系统核心将与生理学核心和KIDNIT资源开发无缝协作 核心，以促进发现。作为联合会的一部分，核心将确保工具的便利交换， 技术和专门的中心资源，以推动全国肾脏研究。因此，核心 欢迎所有合作者，提供促进子核心工具和试剂的机制， 指令（即，迷你休假），并将促进与个别调查人员的协作资源共享 以及整个财团对于早期研究者和初次接触肾脏的既定PI 研究，关键资源，培训和合作机会将优先考虑，以培养热情， 进入活跃的研究管道。核心还将提供专家咨询和援助， 初步数据，以支持新的和创新的赠款申请。严格的质量控制措施将确保 子核心输出的严谨性和可重复性，以及正式的评估和反馈过程允许 定期重新评估核心资源的用途。通过提供具有影响力的最先进技术， 在不同的模型系统中提供可访问的服务，核心将为国家提供独特的资源， 肾脏研究社区，将推动团队为基础的调查和催化发现。

The Model Systems Core continues the Pittsburgh Center for Kidney Research’s rich history of using creative approaches to drive the latest conceptual advances in kidney physiology and pathophysiology. The goal of this biomedical resource Core is to provide a diverse array of innovative model systems that will allow kidney researchers to explore renal development, function, and systemic physiology in normal and disease states. The Core is divided into three Subcores that extend from simple unicellular organisms to complex whole animal models. Taking advantage of the genetically tractable organism S. cerevisiae, the Yeast Models Subcore provides a toolbox for the analysis of conserved genes that play essential roles in kidney physiology and proteostasis. The Epithelial Models Subcore provides access to high fidelity immortalized proximal and distal tubule cell lines, primary cell isolations, and state-of-the art human kidney organoids for the development of disease models, analysis of nephron development, metabolism, function, and response to injury. The Animal Models Subcore provides a broad repertoire of methods to evaluate rodent kidney physiology and pathophysiology, associated cardiovascular variables, mitochondrial health and bioenergetics, and purine metabolomics. Using an infrastructure supported by its established investigators and record of productivity, the Model Systems Core will work seamlessly with the Physiology Core and the KIDNIT Resource Development Core to facilitate discovery. As part of the Consortium, the Core will ensure a facile exchange of tools, technologies, and specialized Center resources to advance kidney research nationwide. Accordingly, the Core welcomes all collaborators, offers mechanisms to promote Subcore tools and reagents, provides hands-on instruction (i.e., mini-sabbaticals), and will facilitate collaborative resource sharing with individual investigators as well as with the Consortium at large. For early-stage investigators and established PIs who are new to kidney research, key resources, training, and collaborative opportunities will be prioritized to cultivate enthusiasm and entry into an active research pipeline. The Core will also provide expert advice and aid in the acquisition of preliminary data to support new and innovative grant applications. Stringent quality control measures will ensure the rigor and reproducibility of Subcore outputs, and a formalized evaluation and feedback process permits regular reassessment of the usefulness of Core resources. By offering impactful state-of-the-art and readily accessible services across diverse model systems, the Core will provide a unique national resource for the kidney research community that will propel team-based investigation and catalyze discovery.