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Feline Renal Diseases: Novel versus Traditional Biomarkers

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Veterinary Pathology & Animal Diseases

Abstract

Renal diseases are common disorders of felines, considered a leading death cause, and exhibit a diagnostic challenge due to a shortage of early damage markers. The traditional biomarkers [e.g., serum creatinine (sCr) and blood urea nitrogen (BUN)] have low diagnostic sensitivity; thus, acute cases progress to chronic. This study aimed to clarify the clinicopathological, ultrasonographic, and pathological findings of cats affected with renal diseases, and the performance of novel renal biomarkers [symmetric dimethyl arginine (SDMA), kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1), Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP), and N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAG)] against the traditional ones. Furthermore, assessing the novel biomarker's role in the follow-up of treated cases. 86 cats were allocated into 4 groups depending on clinical signs, physical examination, sCr concentration, and urine specific gravity (USG) as follows: I. Control negative group (15 apparently healthy cats), II. Control positive group (22 renal diseased cats), III. Pre-azotemic group (31 cats), and IV. Diseased and treated group (18 treated cats). Blood and spot urine samples were collected from all groups. Blood samples for hematological, biochemical, arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis, as well as, SDMA, and KIM-1 concentrations and spot urine samples for routine urinalysis, some biochemical parameters, NAG activity, and THP concentration. Groups II and III showed microcytic hypochromic anemia and significant leukopenia, significant increases in serum concentrations of SDMA, and KIM-1, and activity of urinary NAG; meanwhile, they showed a significant decrease in urinary THP concentration. Group IV after treatment revealed an improvement of all measured parameters except urinary THP concentration. In conclusion, the current study results found out that SDMA, KIM-1, and NAG could serve as efficient biomarkers of early renal injury detection and treatment follow-up.

DOI

10.21608/ejvs.2024.319153.2366

Keywords

SDMA, Kim-1, NAG, THP, urinalysis

Authors

First Name

Ghada

Last Name

Khalil

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Email

ghadakhalil@cu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

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First Name

Khaled

Last Name

Mahran

MiddleName

M. A.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, P.O. Box 12211, Giza, Egypt.

Email

k.mahran@cu.edu.eg

City

Giza

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University

Email

melsaidvet@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Shaymaa

Last Name

Salem

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Email

esmaiel_shaymaa2007@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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Receive Date

2024-09-08

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2024-10-16

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1

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19

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1110-0222

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2357-089X

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140

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Egyptian Journal of Veterinary Sciences

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https://ejvs.journals.ekb.eg/

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Feline Renal Diseases: Novel versus Traditional Biomarkers

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23 Dec 2024