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Heparanase mediates renal dysfunction during early sepsis in mice
- Source :
- Physiological Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2013.
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Abstract
- Heparanase, a heparan sulfate-specific glucuronidase, mediates the onset of pulmonary neutrophil adhesion and inflammatory lung injury during early sepsis. We hypothesized that glomerular heparanase is similarly activated during sepsis and contributes to septic acute kidney injury (AKI). We induced polymicrobial sepsis in mice using cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) in the presence or absence of competitive heparanase inhibitors (heparin or nonanticoagulant N-desulfated re-N-acetylated heparin [NAH]). Four hours after surgery, we collected serum and urine for measurement of renal function and systemic inflammation, invasively determined systemic hemodynamics, harvested kidneys for histology/protein/mRNA, and/or measured glomerular filtration by inulin clearance. CLP-treated mice demonstrated early activation of glomerular heparanase with coincident loss of glomerular filtration, as indicated by a >twofold increase in blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and a >50% decrease in inulin clearance (P < 0.05) in comparison to sham mice. Administration of heparanase inhibitors 2 h prior to CLP attenuated sepsis-induced loss of glomerular filtration rate, demonstrating that heparanase activation contributes to early septic renal dysfunction. Glomerular heparanase activation was not associated with renal neutrophil influx or altered vascular permeability, in marked contrast to previously described effects of pulmonary heparanase on neutrophilic lung injury during sepsis. CLP induction of renal inflammatory gene (IL-6, TNF-α, IL-1β) expression was attenuated by NAH pretreatment. While serum inflammatory indices (KC, IL-6, TNF-α, IL-1β) were not impacted by NAH pretreatment, heparanase inhibition attenuated the CLP-induced increase in serum IL-10. These findings demonstrate that glomerular heparanase is active during sepsis and contributes to septic renal dysfunction via mechanisms disparate from heparanase-mediated lung injury.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
mice
Physiology
Renal function
Vascular permeability
heparin
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Lung injury
urologic and male genital diseases
Systemic inflammation
heparanase
sepsis
Sepsis
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physiology (medical)
Internal medicine
medicine
Heparanase
Blood urea nitrogen
Original Research
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
business.industry
Acute kidney injury
medicine.disease
Endocrinology
heparan sulfate
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2051817X
- Volume :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physiological Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5a98415f4faf1aaed0c2b4518c5be356