Abstract:
:Membranous nephropathy is a major cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults where podocyte injuries were found to mediate the development of proteinuria. Triptolide, a major active component of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F, has potent immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory and antiproteinuric effects. To study its antiproteinuric properties, we established an experimental rat model of passive Heymann nephritis and a C5b-9 injury model of podocytes in vitro. Treatment or pretreatment with triptolide markedly reduced established proteinuria as well as the titer of circulating rat anti-rabbit IgG antibodies in these nephritic rats, accompanied by a reduction in glomerular C5b-9 deposits. Expression of desmin, a marker of podocyte injury, diminished after triptolide treatment, whereas quantitative analysis of mean foot process width showed that effacement of foot processes was substantially reversed. In in vitro studies we found that triptolide deactivated NADPH oxidase, suppressed reactive oxygen species generation and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase, and restored RhoA signaling activity. Triptolide did not interfere with the formation of C5b-9 on the membrane of podocytes. Thus, triptolide reduces established heavy proteinuria and podocyte injuries in rats with passive Heymann nephritis, and protects podocytes from C5b-9-mediated injury.
journal_name
Kidney Intjournal_title
Kidney internationalauthors
Chen ZH,Qin WS,Zeng CH,Zheng CX,Hong YM,Lu YZ,Li LS,Liu ZHdoi
10.1038/ki.2010.41subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-06-01 00:00:00pages
974-88issue
11eissn
0085-2538issn
1523-1755pii
S0085-2538(15)54168-9journal_volume
77pub_type
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1991.253
更新日期:1991-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1996.98
更新日期:1996-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1992.51
更新日期:1992-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1523-1755.1998.00847.x
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1985.177
更新日期:1985-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although it has been recognized for more than 140 years that the pacemaker driving pyeloureteric peristalsis resides within the kidney, the cellular mechanisms underlying this autorhythmicity have been little investigated. The demonstration by Hurtado et al. of a role of hyperpolarization-activated cation channels in ...
journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.2009.485
更新日期:2010-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1977.39
更新日期:1977-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) are dependent on residual renal function for solute and water clearances, and this declines with time on dialysis. Loop diuretics have been postulated to slow this decline. METHODS:Sixty-one patients new to dialysis were randomly assigned to eithe...
journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.0590031128.x
更新日期:2001-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.2013.303
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1992.8
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1038/ki.2011.195
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00999.x
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1994.147
更新日期:1994-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1523-1755.2003.00867.x
更新日期:2003-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.kint.2020.01.027
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1994.131
更新日期:1994-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.kint.2018.05.003
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.00753.x
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Several lines of evidence suggest that cellular immune mechanisms contribute to glomerulonephritis. METHODS:The roles of alphabeta and gammadelta T cells in the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis were investigated in a model of nephrotoxic nephritis in mice deficient in either T-cell population [T-cell rece...
journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00263.x
更新日期:2000-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.2011.254
更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.00301.x
更新日期:2005-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.00461.x
更新日期:2005-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1983.211
更新日期:1983-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1993.253
更新日期:1993-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.ki.5000358
更新日期:2006-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Incretin-based drugs, i.e., glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, are widely used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. In addition to the primary role of incretins in stimulating insulin secretion from pancreatic β-cells, they have extra pancreatic functions ...
journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1038/ki.2014.236
更新日期:2014-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1996.191
更新日期:1996-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::ESKD patients have a large burden of disease, with high rates of readmission to hospital compared with the general population. A readmission after an acute index hospital discharge is either planned or unplanned. A proportion of unplanned readmissions are potentially avoidable, and could have been prevented with optim...
journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1038/ki.2015.307
更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The relationship between leukopenia and the complement system during hemodialysis was re-examined by studying not only the in vivo effects of four different dialyzer membranes (cellulose hydrate, cuprophan, cellulose acetate, and polyacrilonitrile) on leukocyte counts and complement levels, but especially by investiga...
journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/ki.1983.227
更新日期:1983-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:In cultured renal epithelial cells, exposure to oxalate, a constituent of many kidney stones, elicits a cascade of responses that often leads to cell death. Oxalate toxicity is mediated via generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in a process that depends at least in part upon lipid signaling molecules t...
journal_title:Kidney international
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00963.x
更新日期:2004-11-01 00:00:00