Measures of kidney function by minimally invasive techniques correlate with histological glomerular damage in SCID mice with adriamycin-induced nephropathy


Scarfe, Lauren, Rak-Raszewska, Aleksandra, Geraci, Stefania, Darssan, Darsy, Sharkey, Jack, Huang, Jiaguo, Burton, Neal C, Mason, David ORCID: 0000-0002-8773-5274, Ranjzad, Parisa, Kenny, Simon et al (show 7 more authors) (2015) Measures of kidney function by minimally invasive techniques correlate with histological glomerular damage in SCID mice with adriamycin-induced nephropathy. Scientific Reports, 5 (1). 13601-.

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Abstract

Maximising the use of preclinical murine models of progressive kidney disease as test beds for therapies ideally requires kidney function to be measured repeatedly in a safe, minimally invasive manner. To date, most studies of murine nephropathy depend on unreliable markers of renal physiological function, exemplified by measuring blood levels of creatinine and urea, and on various end points necessitating sacrifice of experimental animals to assess histological damage, thus counteracting the principles of Replacement, Refinement and Reduction. Here, we applied two novel minimally invasive techniques to measure kidney function in SCID mice with adriamycin-induced nephropathy. We employed i) a transcutaneous device that measures the half-life of intravenously administered FITC-sinistrin, a molecule cleared by glomerular filtration; and ii) multispectral optoacoustic tomography, a photoacoustic imaging device that directly visualises the clearance of the near infrared dye, IRDye 800CW carboxylate. Measurements with either technique showed a significant impairment of renal function in experimental animals versus controls, with significant correlations with the proportion of scarred glomeruli five weeks after induction of injury. These technologies provide clinically relevant functional data and should be widely adopted for testing the efficacies of novel therapies. Moreover, their use will also lead to a reduction in experimental animal numbers.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Kidney Glomerulus, Animals, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, SCID, Kidney Diseases, Albuminuria, Body Weight, Indoles, Fluoresceins, Doxorubicin, Oligosaccharides, Kidney Function Tests, Models, Statistical, Nephrology, Kinetics, Half-Life, Female, Photoacoustic Techniques, Biomarkers
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Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2016 13:18
Last Modified: 16 Dec 2022 15:44
DOI: 10.1038/srep13601
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2046980
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