Effects of alterations of glomerular fibrin deposition on renal inflammation in rats at different age stages

J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2005 Sep;60(9):1099-110. doi: 10.1093/gerona/60.9.1099.

Abstract

Recent data indicated that aging accelerated glomerular fibrin deposition induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in mice. Our hypothesis was that aging may exacerbate glomerular inflammatory responses induced by glomerular fibrin deposition. Both young and aged rats with glomerular fibrin deposition induced by LPS were treated with tranexamic acid (TA) and TA plus urokinase (UK). Infiltrating inflammatory cells and expressions of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, intercellular adhesion molecule 1, and vascular endothelial-cadherin were markedly upregulated in the LPS+TA group compared with the LPS group. Reduction of fibrin deposition in the LPS+TA+UK group was associated with downregulation of the above indices (p < .05), whereas the alteration of vascular endothelial-cadherin protein expression was negatively correlated with the fibrin deposition. There were also significant differences in increased expressions of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 and intercellular adhesion molecule 1 between young and aged rats. These in vivo data demonstrated that fibrin deposition contributed to glomerular inflammatory responses, which could be exacerbated by aging.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Aging*
  • Animals
  • Antifibrinolytic Agents / pharmacology
  • Antigens, CD
  • Blotting, Northern
  • Cadherins / biosynthesis
  • Cadherins / genetics
  • Chemokine CCL2 / biosynthesis
  • Chemokine CCL2 / genetics
  • Female
  • Fibrin / metabolism*
  • Glomerulonephritis / chemically induced
  • Glomerulonephritis / metabolism
  • Glomerulonephritis / pathology*
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 / biosynthesis
  • Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 / genetics
  • Kidney Glomerulus / drug effects
  • Kidney Glomerulus / metabolism*
  • Kidney Glomerulus / pathology
  • Lipopolysaccharides / toxicity
  • RNA, Messenger / genetics
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Tranexamic Acid / pharmacology
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / pharmacology

Substances

  • Antifibrinolytic Agents
  • Antigens, CD
  • Cadherins
  • Chemokine CCL2
  • Lipopolysaccharides
  • RNA, Messenger
  • cadherin 5
  • Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1
  • Tranexamic Acid
  • Fibrin
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator