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Table 2 Animal AKI models

From: Exercise as a therapeutic option for acute kidney injury: mechanisms and considerations for the design of future clinical studies

Author, year

Animals

Training programme

Method of inducing AKI

Pre or Post Exercise training?

Results

de Lima [23], 2019

Male Wistar Rats

4-week training programme (5 days a week)

Ischaemia-reperfusion injury

Post

↓blood urea, ↓urinary protein, ↓plasma creatinine, ↓apoptosis, ↓tubular injury, ↓tubular cells degenerative injury, ↑cell regeneration.

Francescato [27], 2018

Male Wistar Rats

4-week (5 days a week; combination of easy and moderate aerobic training

Cisplatin

Post

↓Plasma creatinine, ↓urinary volume, ↓sodium and potassium fractional excretion, ↑urine osmolality, ↓lesions, ↓macrophages, ↓ vimentin, α-sma expression, ↓vascular endothelial growth factor, ↑Nitric oxide

Miyagi [25], 2014

C57Bl6 male mice

6-week training programme

Cisplatin

Post

↓Serum creatinine, ↔apoptosis, ↓TNF-α, ↓IL-10, ↑IL-6, ↔Nrf2, ↑ HO-1.

Miyagi [26], 2018

C57Bl6 male mice,

6-week training programme

Cisplatin

Post

↓Serum creatinine, ↓Kim-1, ↑CD4 + CD69+, ↓CD4 + CD25+, IL-10↓, TNF↓

Oliveira [24], 2017

Male Wistar Rats

30 days of moderate treadmill running (60 min/day for 5 days a week).

Gentamicin (100 mg/kg/day) for 10 days

Pre

↑Urinary, ↓plasma lipid peroxidation, ↓urinary lipid peroxidation, ↓kidney lipid peroxidation, ↑anti-oxidants (catalase & glutathione).

Sossdorf [29], 2013

C57BL/6 N male mice

6 weeks of treadmill running

Sepsis

Pre

↓ creatinine, ↓ BUN, ↓IL-10, ↓ TNF -α, ↓ monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, ↓ NGAL, ↓histological tubular damage

Zeynali [28], 2015

Male Wistar Rats

8-week treadmill training programme (one hour per day/five days per week)

Cisplatin

Post and During

↓Serum blood urea nitrogen, ↓serum creatinine, ↓kidney tissue damage, ↓kidney weight, ↓kidney nitrite, ↓serum nitrite ↓kidney malondialdehyde, ↓serum malondialdehyde