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ArticleScientific reports2021

Iohexol plasma clearance simplified by Dried Blood Spot (DBS) sampling to measure renal function in conscious mice.

Ana Elena Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Sergio Luis-Lima, Javier Donate-Correa, Laura Diaz-Martín, María Rosa Arnau, Alejandro Jiménez-Sosa, Flavio Gaspari, Alberto Ortiz, Esteban Porrini

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Measured GFR in murine animal models: review on methods, techniques, and procedures.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ana Elena Rodríguez-Rodríguez *Research Unit, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Sergio Luis-Lima *Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, IIS-Fundación Jimenez Díaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain.
Javier Donate-CorreaResearch Unit, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Laura Diaz-MartínFundación Canaria Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias (FIISC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
María Rosa ArnauServicio del Estabulario, Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Alejandro Jiménez-SosaFundación Canaria Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias (FIISC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Flavio GaspariLaboratorio de Función Renal, Instituto Tecnologías Biomédicas (ITB), Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Alberto OrtizDepartment of Nephrology and Hypertension, IIS-Fundación Jimenez Díaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain.
Esteban PorriniNephrology Department, Unidad de Ensayos Clinicos-UCICEC. Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Ofra s/n La Cuesta, 38320, La Laguna, S/C Tenerife, Spain. esteban.l.porrini@gmail.com.
Hospital Universitario de Canarias · ESFundación Canaria de Investigación Sanitaria · ESUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid · ESUniversidad de La Laguna · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is no simple method to measure glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in mice, which limits the use of mice in models of renal diseases. We aimed at simplifying the plasma clearance of iohexol in mice, using dried blood spot (DBS) sampling in order to reduce the amount of blood taken for analysis. GFR was measured simultaneously by a reference method in total blood-as described before-and tested method using DBS in fifteen male and six female C57BL/6J mice. Total blood extraction was 50 μL for the reference methods and 25μL for the tested methods, distributed in 5 samples. The agreement of GFR values between both methods was analyzed with the concordance correlation coefficient (CCC), total deviation index (TDI) and coverage probability (CP). The agreement between both methods was excellent, showing a TDI = 8.1%, which indicates that 90% of the GFR values obtained with DBS showed an error ranging from - 8 to + 8% of the reference method; a CCC of 0.996 (CI: 0.992), reflecting high precision and accuracy and a CP of 94 (CI: 83), indicating that 6% of the GFR values obtained with DBS had an error greater than 10% of the method in blood. So, both methods are interchangeable. DBS represent a major simplification of GFR measurement in mice. Also, DBS improves animal welfare by reducing the total blood required and refining the procedure.

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Dried Blood Spot TestingGlomerular Filtration RateAnimalsFemaleIohexolMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLIohexol

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PMID33633207
PMCPMC7907335
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