Histopathological Evaluation of Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury Rodent Models

Table 2

Differences between human and rodent kidney, summarized from [53] with additional data for human [52, 53, 62], mouse [42, 56, 63], and rabbit and rat [53, 64] species.

	Human	Rabbit	Rat	Mouse
Number of papillas	7–9	1	1	1
Number of nephrons	0.2–2 million	30 000	25–35 000	10–14 000
Concentrating ability (mOsmol/kg)	1200	1400	3000	4000
Glomerular diameter (μm)	200	140	120	73