Urinary Measurement of Neutrophil Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin and Kidney Injury Molecule-1 Helps Diagnose Acute Pyelonephritis in a Preclinical Model

Table 1

Correlation analysis between each component of renal scarring (tubular changes and amount of fibrosis) and the levels of urinary biomarkers at early phase of APN.

	NGAL/Cr	NGAL/Cr	Kim-1/Cr	Kim-1/Cr	IL-18/Cr	IL-18/Cr
	at 2 days	at 7 days	at 2 days	at 7 days	at 2 days	at 7 days
Tubular damage
Coefficients (𝑟)	0.20	0.51	−0.01	0.16	0.24	−0.09
𝑃	0.58	0.13	0.91	0.64	0.56	0.77
Amount of fibrosis
Coefficients (𝑟)	0.31	−0.48	0.25	0.11	0.18	0.26
𝑃	0.39	0.16	0.59	0.72	0.45	0.75