Pretreatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor attenuated renal ischaemia and reperfusion injury via activation of PI3/Akt signal pathway |
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Authors: | Li Yiwen Wu Jianyong Shou Zhangfei He Qiang Zhang Ping Han Fei Li Hen Chen Jianghua |
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Affiliation: | Kidney Disease Centre, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. |
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Abstract: | Aim: Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) has been shown to exert protective effects in various tissues and experimental models of ischaemia-induced injury. However, the mechanism of renoprotective action in ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) renal injury of G-CSF was unknown. Methods: Male C57BL/6J mice, subjected to renal ischaemia for 45 min, 48 h and 7 days reperfusion, were administered either saline, wortmannin, G-CSF, and G-CSF plus wortmannin 3 days prior to I/R. Saline-treated group served as the control. At 48 h and 7 days of reperfusion, the mice were killed. Results: Significantly, renal dysfunction and morphological injury were identified at 48 h and 7 days after I/R. Wortmannin pretreatment worsened the renal injury significantly. However, G-CSF pretreatment significantly attenuated renal injury, reduced the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling-positive ratio of renal tubular epithelial cells and inflammation cytokine expression in the kidney. Moreover, G-CSF pretreatment inhibited the expression of Bax and increased the expression of bcl-2 and p-Akt in the kidney. Wortmannin blunted the beneficial effects of G-CSF. Conclusion: The cytoprotective action of G-CSF against I/R injury seems to be associated with its anti-apoptotic action mediated by upregulation of p-Akt signal pathway. |
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Keywords: | apoptosis granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) inflammation ischaemia/reperfusion |
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