Objective: The aim: This study aimed to examine the anti-inflammatory, and antiapoptotic effects of erythropoietin against kidney injury inducted by ischemia reperfusion in experimental model.
Patients and methods: Materials and methods: 20 male Sprague Dawley rats were randomly divided into 4 equal groups: sham (subject to median laparotomy only), control (subject to 30 minutes ischemia and 2hours reperfusion), vehicle (injected by distilled water and subjected to the same procedure of ischemia reperfusion), erythropoietin group (as in vehicle group but the rats pretreated with 1000 U/kg of erythropoietin). The left kidney and blood specimen were collected. The blood utilized to assess serum creatinine. While kidneys utilized to assessed MCP-1, TLR2, and caspase-3 in addition to histopathological evaluation.
Results: Results: Control and vehicle samples showed that a significant elevation in serum creatinine, TLR2, caspase-3, and MCP-1 as compared with sham group. The histological eval¬uation showed a significant rise in kidney injury scores. Kidneys and blood samples of erythropoietin pretreated rats established histopathological and functional improvement as evidenced via reduced kidney injury scores in addition to the reduction in serum creatinine, as well as there were a significant diminished in caspase-3, MCP-1, and TLR2 levels when compared with control and vehicle groups.
Conclusion: Conclusions: Erythropoietin has renoprotective effect against ischemia and reperfusion, which achieved by decrease the inflammatory response as well as antiapoptotic effect.
Keywords: MCP-1; TLR2; caspase-3; ischemia reperfusion injury; apoptosis; erythropoietin.