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Table 9 Semiquantitative scoring systems for systemic disease models

From: Multiparametric and semiquantitative scoring systems for the evaluation of mouse model histopathology - a systematic review

Disease model

Scoring system: parameters (scale width)

Citations

Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD)

Intestinal acute GvHD [145]

Small intestine: villous blunting, crypt regeneration/apoptosis/loss, enterocyte loss, infiltration (each 0–4); Colon: crypt regeneration, colonocyte vacuolization, crypt apoptosis/destruction, infiltration (each 0–4)

389

Acute GvHD [146]

Small/large bowel: villous blunting, crypt regeneration/apoptosis/loss, luminal sloughing, infiltration, mucosal ulceration, epithelial/vacuolization (each 0–4), liver: portal infiltration, bile duct apoptosis/sloughing, parenchymal apoptosis/abscesses/mitoses, steatosis, cholestasis (each 0–4)

170

Acute GvHD [147]

Skin: epidermal damage, dermal collagen density, dermal infiltration, subcutaneous fat loss, hair follicle loss (each 0–2), intestine: crypt apoptosis, inflammation(each 0–4), liver: bile duct injury (0–4)

50

Hemorrhagic shock

Lung lesion [148]

Alveolar membrane thickening, congestion, edema, intraalveolar hemorrhage, interstitial, intraalveolar infiltration (each 0–3)

36

Intestinal, pulmonary lesions [149]

Intestine: % injury (number of edematous villi x 0,5 + number of villi with epithelial damage x 1), lung: number of neutrophils in 10 fields

2

Pulmonary, intestinal, renal, hepatic lesions [150]

Lung: atelectasis, hemorrhage, edema, congestion, inflammation, hyp-eraeration (each 0–3); ileal mucosal damage, (0–5), liver: congestion, necrosis, vacuolization (each 0–3), Kidney: epithelial swelling, tubular dilation, necrosis, edema, microthrombosis (each 0–3)

2

Immunotoxicity

[151]

Complete assessment of all lymphoid organs (each 0–4)

50

Transplant rejection

Banff classification for renal rejection [152]

Tubulitis, arteritis, mononuclear cell interstitial infiltrates, glomerulitis, interstitial fibrosis, tubular atrophy, glomerulopathy, mesangial matrix increase, vascular fibrous intimal thickening, arteriolar hyaline thickening (each 0–3)

1.727

Heart rejection 1990 [153]

Infiltration, myocyte damage (0–4)

1401

Heart rejection 2005 [154]

Infiltration, myocyte damage (0–3)

365

Lung rejection [155]

Inflammation (0–4), lymphocyte infiltration (0–1), bronchiolitis obliterans (0–4), Vascular rejection (0–1), vasculitis (0–1)

362

Skin rejection [156]

Acanthosis, ulceration, necrosis, inflammation, granulation tissue (0–5)

1

  1. GvHD, Graft versus host disease.