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. 2018 Dec 28;36(2):30. doi: 10.1007/s11095-018-2551-x

Table I.

AAG Levels in Plasma or Serum Across Species in Healthy and Disease State

Species/Strain or breed Mean or range (mg/ml) Acute phase response/Disease type Reference
Healthy Disease Fold change disease/ Healthy
Mouse/C57BL/6 0.09–0.11 0.65–1.0 7–9 Pulmonary Fibrosis (5)
Mouse/CD1 0.096 Cancer, tumor load: (6)
0.38 4 0.2–0.3 g (8d post implant)
1.58 (1.35–1.81) 14–19 0.8–1 g (15-20d post implant)
Mouse/C57BL/6 0.1 2.0 20 IL-1 mediated induction (7)
Mouse 0.1 3.5 >20 Acute phase response (8)
Mouse/CD1 & NMRI 0.99–1.1 (9)
Rat/Dark Agouti 0.20 ± 0.01 1.38 ± 0.13 7 Phenobarbital inducedb (10)
Rat/Sprague-Dawley 0.30 ± 0.04 0.49 ± 0.05 2 Phenobarbital inducedb (10)
Rat/Sprague-Dawley 0.13 0.25 2 Stress (11)
Rat/Lewis 0.1 0.4–1.4 4–14 Arthritis (12)
Rat/Wistar 0.1 0.5 5 Cirrhosis (13)
1.0 10 Inflammation, LPSc
Rat/Sprague-Dawley 0.23–0.32 (9)
Rabbit/New Zealand White 0.31–0.41 (9)
Pig/Conventional Crossbred 2.5 1.4 0.6 Infection (14)
1.5 1.1 0.7 Inflammation
0.34 ± 0.08 0.1–1.0 ≤3 Arthritis (15)
0.9–1.2 ≤4 Hernia
0.2–2.0 ≤6 Infection
0.3–0.6 0.4–0.55 none Inflammation, turpentine (16)
0.3–0.6 0.3–0.56 none Inflammation, turpentine (17)
1.08 0.98 0.9 Inflammation, LPSc (18)
Minipig/Ossabaw 0.5 (14)
Minipig/Gottingen 0.3
Minipig/Gottingen ~0.2 ~0.2 none Inflammation, LPSc (19)
0.3–0.4 ~0.9 (0.6–1.5) 2 Obesity, High Fat Diet
0.3–0.4 ~1.0 (0.6–1.6) 2 Mild Diabetes, High Fat Diet
Cat/Domestic 0.27a 0.83a 3 Cancer (20)
0.1–0.48 ≥ 1.5 3–15 Infection (21)
0.23 0.51 2 Cancer (22)
1.12 5 Infection, Coronavirus
3.82 17 Infection, Peritonitis
0.24 ± 0.01 4.71 ± 1.47 6–19 Inflammation/Diseased (23)
<0.56 2.89 (2.04–14) >3–25 Infection (24)
0.27–0.38 (9)
Dog/Beagle 0.32 (0.04–0.96) 1.21–1.36 1–34 Infection (25)
0.37 1.63 4 Inflammation (26)
0.25 (0.17–0.33) 0.83 (0.5–1.3) 2–7 Infection (27)
0.47 2.85 6 Inflammation (28)
0.50 1.94 4 Infection (29)
0.37–0.60 (9)
Monkey/Cynomolgus 0.11 1.85–2.67 16–24 Inflammation (30)
5–10 Infection d
Human 0.67 (0.45–1.12) 2.20 ± 0.62 (1.03–3.15) 2–3 Cancer (31)
1.43 ± 0.65 (0.71–2.27) Infection
0.50 ± 0.14 (0.28–0.92) (32)
0.46 ± 0.17 1.06 ± 0.56 2 Pulmonary Fibrosis (5)
~0.75 ~0.9 Renal Failure (33)
~0.6 Cirrhosis
~1.1 Chronic Uremia
~1.5 After Hemodialysis
0.52 ± 0.24 (1–2 months) 0.08–3.3 (0–1 month) 0.2–7 Infection – Bacterial (34)
0.18–2.96 (0–1 month) Infection-Viral/Parasitological
0.36–1.8 Cancer (35)
0.77 ± 0.15 (0.36–1.46) (36)
0.5–1.0 ≤ 3.0 3–6 Inflammation, infection, cancer (3)

aMedian value

bIndependent of inflammation pathway

cLPS Lipopolysaccharide (bacterial infection, acute inflammatory stimulus)

dLife Diagnostics, Inc., indicated on package insert