The underlined and italic terms of the paragraph below should be updated with your specifics (such as species, FITC-Sinistrin amount, measurement time, and evaluation procedure).

Transdermal GFR measurement was done using the MediBeacon Preclinical MX System (MediBeacon Inc.). In short, mice/rats were anesthetized and a Preclinical MX monitor was mounted on the animals' shaved and depilated back. Prior to the intravenous injection of 75 or 50 mg/kg FITC-sinistrin, the skin's background signal was recorded for 5 min. For the duration of recording (~1.5/2.5 h), each animal was conscious and kept in a single cage. After removing the device, data were analyzed using the MediBeacon MB Lab/MB Studio software. The GFR [μl/min or µL/min/b.w.] was calculated from the decrease of fluorescence intensity over time (i.e., plasma half-life of FITC-sinistrin) using a one-/two-/three⁴- compartment model, the animals’ body weight and an empirical conversion factor^1,3.

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2. Scarfe L, Schock-Kusch D, Ressel L, Friedemann J, Shulhevich Y, Murray P, Wilm B, de Caestecker M. Transdermal Measurement of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Mice. Vis. Exp. (140), e58520, doi:10.3791/58520 (2018). (cite for procedure)

3. Schock-Kusch D, Sadick M, Henninger N, Kraenzlin B, Claus G, Kloetzer H-M, Weiß C, Pill J, Gretz N. Transcutaneous measurement of glomerular filtration rate using FITC-sinistrin in rats, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Volume 24, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 2997–3001, https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfp225 (cite for rat conversion factor)

4. Friedemann J, Heinrich R, Shulhevich Y, Raedle M, William-Olsson L, Pill J, Schock-Kusch D. Improved kinetic model for the transcutaneous measurement of glomerular filtration rate in experimental animals. Kidney Int. 2016 Dec;90(6):1377-1385. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2016.07.024. Epub 2016 Sep 21. PMID: 27665115. (cite for 3 compartment model used in MB Studio software)