Protective effects of simvastatin on endotoxin-induced acute kidney injury through activation of tubular epithelial cells’ survival and hindering cytochrome c-mediated apoptosis

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/19/7236" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/19/7236</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21197236" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijms21197236</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Protective effects of simvastatin on endotoxin-induced acute kidney injury through activation of tubular epithelial cells’ survival and hindering cytochrome c-mediated apoptosis

Original language description

Increasing evidence suggests that apoptosis of tubular cells and renal inflammation mainly determine the outcome of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (AKI). The study aim was to investigate the molecular mechanism involved in the renoprotective effects of simvastatin in endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LSP)-induced AKI. A sepsis model was established by intraperitoneal injection of a single non-lethal LPS dose after short-term simvastatin pretreatment. The severity of the inflammatory injury was expressed as renal damage scores (RDS). Apoptosis of tubular cells was detected by Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP Nick End Labeling (TUNEL assay) (apoptotic DNA fragmentation, expressed as an apoptotic index, AI) and immunohistochemical staining for cleaved caspase-3, cytochrome C, and anti-apoptotic Bcl-xL and survivin. We found that endotoxin induced severe renal inflammatory injury (RDS = 3.58 ± 0.50), whereas simvastatin dose-dependently prevented structural changes induced by LPS. Furthermore, simvastatin 40 mg/kg most profoundly attenuated tubular apoptosis, determined as a decrease of cytochrome C, caspase-3 expression, and AIs (p &lt; 0.01 vs. LPS). Conversely, simvastatin induced a significant increase of Bcl-XL and survivin, both in the strong inverse correlations with cleaved caspase-3 and cytochrome C. Our study indicates that simvastatin has cytoprotective effects against LPS-induced tubular apoptosis, seemingly mediated by upregulation of cell-survival molecules, such as Bcl-XL and survivin, and inhibition of the mitochondrial cytochrome C and downstream caspase-3 activation. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International journal of molecular sciences

ISSN

1661-6596

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

19

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

"Article number 7236"

UT code for WoS article

000587175500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85091960370