| 저자 |
Jeonghwan Lee, Lilin Li, Young Wook Choi, Jung Nam An, Yoon Kyu Oh, Chun Soo Lim, Seung Hee Yang, Yon Su Kim, Jung Pyo Lee |
| 초록 |
We aimed to investigate whether treatment with agnostic cMet antibody can prevent kidney fibrosis in the acute kidney disease mice model. Unilateral ischemic-reperfusion injury at left kidney was introduced in 7-week0old male C57BL/6 mice (n = 14) and raised for up to 28 days to induce acute kidney disease model. Agnostic cMet antibody (20 mg/kg) was injected via tail vein at a schedule of day -1, 0, 1, 3, and twice weekly thereafter in the treatment group (n = 7). Vehicle (saline) was injected via tail vein at the same schedule in the control group (n = 7). Left kidney weight per total body weight was significantly higher in the treatment group (0.63 ± 0.21% vs. 0.43 ± 0.22%, P = 0.022). In the histopathologic specimen of Masson's trichrome stain, areas of kidney interstitial fibrosis attenuated in the treatment group. In the western-blot analysis, protein abundance of α-smooth muscle actin (22.5% of control, P = 0.03), fibronectin (16.4% of control, P = 0.03), TGF-β (33.3% of control, P = 0.05), total (6.6% of control, P = 0.03) and phospho-smad2/3 (10.1% of control, P = 0.03) decreased significantly, and protein abundance of e-cadherin increased (912.4% of control, P = 0.03) significantly in the treatment group. In the real-time PCR analysis, mRNA expression of α-smooth muscle actin (11.5% of control, P = 0.006), collagen 1 (11.6% of control, P = 0.01), fibronectin (11.2% of control, P = 0.01), TGF-β (21.3% of control, P = 0.01) decreased significantly in the treatment group. Agonistic cMet antibody attenuates kidney fibrosis in the mice unilateral ischemic reperfusion induced acute kidney disease model, and TGF-β and smad2/3 pathway involved in the kidney fibrosis are effectively suppressed in the treatment of agonistic cMet antibody. |