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The Protective Effect of the Asystasia chelonoides Extracts on Hypertensive Nephropathy Rats

Author(s): Tingting Duan, Minyi Li, Beifeng Lie, Ziyang Lin, Mengqiu Li, Tao Xia, Guixuan Lin, Lanqing Meng, Xiuqing Lu, Zhenghai Li* and Junzheng Yang*

Volume 24, Issue 13, 2023

Published on: 28 March, 2023

Page: [1708 - 1714] Pages: 7

DOI: 10.2174/1389201024666230320120925

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Abstract

Background: Hypertensive nephropathy (HN) is one kind of kidney disorders caused by long-term uncontrolled hypertension, usually resulting in severe kidney damage, including inflammation and oxidative stress, no matter in cells or tissues, from patients with nephropathy. In recent years, nephropathy accompanied by hypertension is becoming one of the main causes for kidney replacement therapy, but few effective treatments have been reported for HN treatment. Asystasia chelonoides (AC) is a kind of plant with the effects of anti-inflammation, lowering blood pressure, and anti-oxidative stress. Still, the therapeutic effect of AC in HN rats is not clear.

Methods: To establish HN model by feeding high sugar and high fat diet spontaneously hypertensive rats. Blood measurement, HE staining, PAS staining and biochemical analysis and were used to assess the therapeutic effects of AC extracts and western blotting analyzed the underlying mechanisms of AC extracts treatment in the HN rat model.

Results: AC extracts could significantly lower systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and mean blood pressure (MBP) in HN rats; and reduce the expression of total protein (TP), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), microalbuminuria (MALB), creatinine (Cr), total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) concentrations, and also could down-regulate expression of IL-6, MDA and AGEs, up-regulate the expression of SOD in HN rats; HE staining and PAS staining demonstrated that AC extracts could alleviate the histopathological changes in HN rats; western blotting demonstrated that AC extracts could up-regulate the expression of PPARγ and down-regulate the expression of TGFβ1 and NF-кB in HN rats.

Conclusion: The finding of the article demonstrated that AC extracts had the better therapeutic effect for HN, and provided the pharmacological evidences for AC extracts treatment for HN.

Keywords: Hypertensive nephropathy, Asystasia chelonoide extracts, rat, PPARγ, TGFβ, anti-inflammation, anti-oxidative stress.

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