A novel simple experimental model for low-osmolar contrast-induced acute kidney injury using different definitions based on the levels of serum creatinine and cystatin C

Abstract Background It remained lack of a kind of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) model which was widely used in clinical practice and comparable to CI-AKI in humans. Methods Fifty Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into five groups of 10 rats each: (1) sham group (normal saline [NS] + N...

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Main Authors: Yuan-hui Liu, Jin-hua Xue, Deng-xuan Wu, Wei-jie Bei, Kun Wang, Yong Liu, Ji-yan Chen, Ning Tan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-07-01
Series:BMC Nephrology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12882-019-1436-5