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ANNALS OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Volume 8, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AME PUBL CO
DOI: 10.21037/atm-20-5167
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Adriamycin; chronic nephrosis (CN); mitogen-activated protein kinase; senescence; STAT1
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Background: Chronic nephrosis (CN) is an aging-related disease with high mortality. Signal transduction and transcriptional activator 1 (STAT1) protein promotes senescence in human glomerular mesangial cells (HMCs), but whether it affects the progression of adriamycin (ADR)-induced CN in vivo remains unclear. Methods: We established an ADR-induced CN mouse model that was completed in wild-type (wt) mice by a single intravenous injection of 10 mg/kg ADR for 2 or 4 weeks. Clinical indexes in each group were determined. Hematoxylin and eosin staining (H&E) was employed to determine renal histopathological damage, SA-I3-gal staining was used to evaluate cell senescence phenotype. TUNEL and itnmunohistochemistry (IHC) staining were used to detect renal apoptosis. Protein levels of Bd-2, Bax, STAT1, p53 and p21 were measured by Western Blot. Results: STAT1 intervention ameliorated renal function. H&E staining indicated that STAT1-deficient (stat1(-/-)) improved the renal tubular injury, and sta1(-/-) obviously inhibited the apoptosis and Caspase-3(+) number in kidney tissues. Besides, stat1(-/-) decreased proteinuria, and the levels of urea nitrogen and creatinine as well as that of reactive oxygen species induced by ADR. Also, stat1(-/-) resulted in the reduced expression of p53 and p21. Conclusions: Our current study strongly demonstrated the involvement of the STAT1-p53-p21 axis in the regulation of CN and is a potential target for the nephrosis treatment.
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