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Effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II-infused mice
The underlying pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease involves an activated renin-angiotensin system and systemic inflammation which ultimately develop renal injury. Rikkunshito (RKT) has been reported to exert anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory effects through enhancement of ghrelin signaling path...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470237/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30996242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42657-1 |
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author | Azushima, Kengo Uneda, Kazushi Wakui, Hiromichi Ohki, Kohji Haruhara, Kotaro Kobayashi, Ryu Haku, Sona Kinguchi, Sho Yamaji, Takahiro Minegishi, Shintaro Ishigami, Tomoaki Yamashita, Akio Tamura, Kouichi |
author_facet | Azushima, Kengo Uneda, Kazushi Wakui, Hiromichi Ohki, Kohji Haruhara, Kotaro Kobayashi, Ryu Haku, Sona Kinguchi, Sho Yamaji, Takahiro Minegishi, Shintaro Ishigami, Tomoaki Yamashita, Akio Tamura, Kouichi |
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description | The underlying pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease involves an activated renin-angiotensin system and systemic inflammation which ultimately develop renal injury. Rikkunshito (RKT) has been reported to exert anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory effects through enhancement of ghrelin signaling pathway. In this study, we investigated the effects of RKT on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II (Ang II)-induced renal injury model. Ang II-infused mice exhibited hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy, increases in blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine, moderate albuminuria and renal pathological changes such as mild urinary cast, interstitial macrophage infiltration and modest interstitial fibrosis. RKT had no evident effects on the Ang II-induced renal functional insufficiency and fibrosis, but attenuated renal interstitial macrophage infiltration. In addition, RKT significantly restored the Ang II-induced alteration in the expression of renal fibrosis- and inflammation-related genes such as type 3 collagen, transforming growth factor-β, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and interleukin-6. Furthermore, although RKT did not affect the expression of renal ghrelin receptor, an Ang II-induced decrease in renal sirtuin 1 expression, a critical down-stream pathway of the ghrelin receptor, was restored by RKT. These findings suggest that RKT potentially has a renal anti-inflammatory effect in the development of renal injury, and this effect could be mediated by the ghrelin signaling pathway. |
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spelling | pubmed-64702372019-04-25 Effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II-infused mice Azushima, Kengo Uneda, Kazushi Wakui, Hiromichi Ohki, Kohji Haruhara, Kotaro Kobayashi, Ryu Haku, Sona Kinguchi, Sho Yamaji, Takahiro Minegishi, Shintaro Ishigami, Tomoaki Yamashita, Akio Tamura, Kouichi Sci Rep Article The underlying pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease involves an activated renin-angiotensin system and systemic inflammation which ultimately develop renal injury. Rikkunshito (RKT) has been reported to exert anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory effects through enhancement of ghrelin signaling pathway. In this study, we investigated the effects of RKT on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II (Ang II)-induced renal injury model. Ang II-infused mice exhibited hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy, increases in blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine, moderate albuminuria and renal pathological changes such as mild urinary cast, interstitial macrophage infiltration and modest interstitial fibrosis. RKT had no evident effects on the Ang II-induced renal functional insufficiency and fibrosis, but attenuated renal interstitial macrophage infiltration. In addition, RKT significantly restored the Ang II-induced alteration in the expression of renal fibrosis- and inflammation-related genes such as type 3 collagen, transforming growth factor-β, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and interleukin-6. Furthermore, although RKT did not affect the expression of renal ghrelin receptor, an Ang II-induced decrease in renal sirtuin 1 expression, a critical down-stream pathway of the ghrelin receptor, was restored by RKT. These findings suggest that RKT potentially has a renal anti-inflammatory effect in the development of renal injury, and this effect could be mediated by the ghrelin signaling pathway. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6470237/ /pubmed/30996242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42657-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Azushima, Kengo Uneda, Kazushi Wakui, Hiromichi Ohki, Kohji Haruhara, Kotaro Kobayashi, Ryu Haku, Sona Kinguchi, Sho Yamaji, Takahiro Minegishi, Shintaro Ishigami, Tomoaki Yamashita, Akio Tamura, Kouichi Effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II-infused mice |
title | Effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II-infused mice |
title_full | Effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II-infused mice |
title_fullStr | Effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II-infused mice |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II-infused mice |
title_short | Effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin II-infused mice |
title_sort | effects of rikkunshito on renal fibrosis and inflammation in angiotensin ii-infused mice |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470237/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30996242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42657-1 |
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