• Thomas Mondritzki, Sarah M L Steinbach, Philip Boehme, Jessica Hoffmann, Maximilian Kullmann, Daniel Schock-Kusch, Julia Vogel, Peter Kolkhof, Peter Sandner, Erwin Bischoff, Jörg Hüser, Wilfried Dinh, and ... more Hubert Truebel. less
• Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany; University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany. Electronic address: thomas.mondritzki@bayer.com.
• J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods. 2018 Mar 1; 90: 7-12.

IntroductionQuantitative assessment of renal function by measurement of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is an important part of safety and efficacy evaluation in preclinical drug development. Existing methods are often time consuming, imprecise and associated with animal burden. Here we describe the comparison between GFR determinations with sinistrin (PS-GFR) and fluorescence-labelled sinistrin-application and its transcutaneous detection (TD-GFR) in a large animal model of chronic kidney disease (CKD).MethodsTD-GFR measurements compared to a standard method using i.v. sinistrin were performed in a canine model. Animals were treated with one-sided renal wrapping (RW) followed by renal artery occlusion (RO). Biomarker and remote hemodynamic measurements were performed. Plasma sinistrin in comparison to transcutaneous derived GFR data were determined during healthy conditions, after RW and RW+RO.ResultsRW alone did not led to any significant changes in renal function, neither with PS-GFR nor TD-GFR. Additional RO showed a rise in blood pressure (+68.0mmHg), plasma urea (+28.8mmol/l), creatinine (+224,4μmol/l) and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA™; +12.6μg/dl). Plasma sinistrin derived data confirmed the expected drop (-44.7%, p<0.0001) in GFR. The calculated transcutaneous determined Fluorescein Isothiocyanate (FITC)-sinistrin GFR showed no differences to plasma sinistrin GFR at all times. Both methods were equaly sensitive to diagnose renal dysfunction in the affected animals.DiscussionRenal function assessment using TD-GFR is a valid method to improve preclinical drug discovery and development. Furthermore, TD-GFR method offers advantages in terms of reduced need for blood sampling and thus decreasing animal burden compared to standard procedures.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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