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Table 1 Summary of representative rodent models used to study peritoneal dialysis and its associated complications

From: Peritonitis-induced peritoneal injury models for research in peritoneal dialysis review of infectious and non-infectious models

Representative animal models

 

Methods

Species

Experimental period

Peritoneal dysfunction

Neoangiogenesis

Fibrosis

EPS

References

Peritonitis model

         

Infectious model

Bacteria

Staphylococcus aureus

Mouse

2 days

No report

No report

No report

−

[14]

Rat

2 weeks

No report

No report

±

−

[15,16,17,18]

  

Staphylococcus epidermidis

Mouse

2 weeks

No report

No report

No report

−

[20]

  

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Rat

1 week

No report

No report

No report

−

[21]

 

Fungus

Candida albicans

Mouse

1 day

No report

No report

No report

−

[22]

 

Performance without aseptic precautions

 

Mouse

1 week

+

+

No report

−

[23]

Rat

1 week

+

+

No report

−

[23,24,25]

Non-infectious model

 

LPS

Mouse

1 day

+

No report

No report

−

[26, 27]

Rat

1 day

+

No report

No report

−

[28, 29]

  

PDF with LPS

Rat

3–6 weeks

+

+

+

−

[29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36]

  

SES

Mouse

2 days

No report

No report

No report

−

[11, 37]

  

Scraping

Rat

2 weeks

+

+

+

−

[38, 39]

  

Zymosan with scraping

Rat

5 weeks

No report

+

+

±

[64, 67]

  

PDF

Mouse

4–5 weeks

+

+

+

−

[78,79,80,81,82,83]

Rat

1–20 weeks

+

+

+

−

[69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77]

  

Chlorhexidine

Mouse

1–8 weeks

+

+

+

+

[97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108]

Rat

1–8 weeks

+

+

+

+

[84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96]

  

Methylglyoxal

Mouse

3–7 weeks

+

+

+

+

[113, 114]

Rat

3 weeks

+

+

+

+

[109,110,111,112]

  

TGF-β1

Mouse

1–10 weeks

No report

+

+

+

[115,116,117,118]

Rat

1–4 weeks

+

+

+

−

[119, 120]

  1. LPS lipopolysaccharide, PDF peritoneal dialysis fluid, SES a lyophilized cell-free supernatant, TGF-β1 transforming growth factor-β1, EPS encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis