The 5 / 6th resection rat kidney model is more classic, and the glomerular damage that occurs is similar to human
focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Generally, the
blood creatinine and
blood urea nitrogen in the operation group are obvious after 8 to 12 weeks. Increased, hypocalcemia,
hyperphosphatemia, showing typical symptoms of
chronic renal failure, and cardiovascular and renal bone diseases such as vascular
calcification, decreased
bone density and other complications of
chronic renal failure; but this model has the following shortcomings: ( 1) It is necessary to establish a model by one-step or two-step
surgery, which increases the chance of
anesthesia accident and
surgical infection; (2) the modeling cycle is long, usually more than 18 weeks; in contrast, the adenine The mouse
nephrotoxicity model has attracted more attention in recent years because of its simplicity and
high survival rate. Compared with the 5 / 6th nephrectomy
rat model, it has more rapid and severe
nephropathy progression,
hyperparathyroidism and arterial
calcification, and is usually given After 4 weeks of diet containing 0.75% adenine, CKD symptoms appeared, manifested as
secondary hyperparathyroidism, parathyroid
hyperplasia, a sharp increase in
parathyroid hormone in the blood, serious disorders of
calcium and
phosphorus metabolism, and
bone regeneration. The absorption is enhanced, and the calcification of the
aorta, coronary
artery and other soft tissues is formed; the aortic calcification mainly appears in the media, which is very similar to the typical clinical arterial calcification of chronic
dialysis patients, but this model also has two major shortcomings: ( 1) Because the rats eat freely, the amount of adenine intake varies greatly, and the individual models vary greatly; (2) This model will cause severe
weight loss in rats, and even the
body weight will drop by almost 50% after modeling. %
The above defects are obviously not conducive to
drug research and screening. Based on this, Terai et al. improved the
nephrotoxicity model of adenine rats, and administered 600mg / kg / d adenine to the rats, and
acute kidney injury was caused after 10 days, and no obvious
Weight loss; however, the biggest
disadvantage of the established model is the low incidence of vascular calcification, only about 12.5% at 8 weeks, although it exhibits nephrotoxicity and bone changes
[0004] To sum up, the current animal models of vascular calcification of chronic kidney disease are all made of rats, and the modeling rate is generally not high; and because rat experiments require a large amount of drugs, a large experimental space, and a large amount of labor, the industry does not recommend the use of vascular calcification. Screening and evaluating anti-vascular calcification drugs in this type of
animal model is not optimistic
[0005] At the same time, based on experimental mice limited to
gene knockout models, such as: apolipoprotein E-deficient mice,
osteopontin (OPN)-deficient mice, matrix Gla
protein (MGP)-deficient mice,
osteoprotegerin (
osteoprotegerin, OPG) )-deficient mice, etc.; although the
gene knockout method can eliminate the side effects and complex factors that accompany diet and
drug-induced vascular calcification, its preparation process is complicated, time-consuming, and costly, so it cannot be widely used
[0006] At present, there are no reports about adenine or 5 / 6Nx
ablation-induced vascular calcification in mice at home and abroad, which may be related to the difficulty of nephrectomy in mice or the higher
mortality rate after administration