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Using urinary exosomes as a biomarker has unique advantages. To assess whether urinary exosomal Na+\/H+ exchanger isoform 3 (NHE3) protein could serve as a biomarker of AKI, we constructed four AKI rat models: cisplatin (7.5 mg\/kg) injected intraperitoneally (IP), furosemide (20 mg\/kg, IP) with a low-NaCl (0.03%) diet, a low-NaCl (0.03%) diet with candesartan (1 mg\/kg, IP) and bilateral ischemia and reperfusion (I\/R) injury for 40 min. Additionally, we assessed six sepsis-associated AKI patients and six healthy volunteers. Urinary exosomes were extracted by ultracentrifugation, and the NHE3 protein abundance was tested by immunoblotting for all the AKI rats and human subjects. The isolated cup-shaped particles with an average diameter of 70 nm and enrichment in CD63 were identified as exosomes. NHE3 abundance was six times higher in exosomes than in the whole urine. In cisplatin-induced AKI rats, urinary exosomal NHE3 was increased on day 2, one day earlier than the increases in Scr and blood urea nitrogen (BUN). In additional rats, urinary exosomal NHE3 decreased along with the decline in Scr after EPO pretreatment. In volume-depletion AKI induced by furosemide injection with a low-NaCl diet, the urinary exosomal NHE3 expression was higher than that in the control. Under a low-NaCl diet with candesartan-related AKI, the urinary exosomal NHE3 was elevated on day 5, earlier than Scr. In I\/R-injury AKI, the urinary exosomal NHE3 was also raised compared with that in the control. In humans, the urinary exosomal NHE3 level was also elevated in sepsis-associated AKI patients in comparison with that in the healthy volunteers. 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