scholarly journals Evaluation of urine biomarkers of kidney injury in polycystic kidney disease

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 784-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chirag R. Parikh ◽  
Neera K. Dahl ◽  
Arlene B. Chapman ◽  
James E. Bost ◽  
Charles L. Edelstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Polycystic Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Polycystic Kidney ◽  
Urine Biomarkers

scholarly journals Metformin Improves Relevant Disease Parameters in an Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Mouse Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria M Pastor-Soler ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
Jessica Pham ◽  
Daniel Rivera ◽  
Pei-Yin Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Mouse Model ◽  
Polycystic Kidney Disease ◽  
Autosomal Dominant ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Polycystic Kidney ◽  
Gene And Protein Expression ◽  
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), caused by mutations in the PKD1 or PKD2 genes encoding polycystins, presents with progressive development of kidney cysts and eventual end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) with limited treatment options. Previous work showed that metformin reduces cyst growth in rapid ADPKD mouse models via inhibition of CFTR-mediated fluid secretion, mTOR, and cAMP pathways. The present study importantly tested the effectiveness of metformin as a therapy for ADPKD in a more clinically relevant Pkd1RC/RC mouse model, homozygous for the R3277C knock-in point mutation in the Pkd1 gene. This mutation causes ADPKD in humans. Pkd1RC/RC male and female mice, which have slow progression to ESKD, received metformin (300 mg/kg/day in drinking water vs. water alone) from 3 to 9 or 12 months of age. As previously reported, Pkd1RC/RC females had a more severe disease phenotype than males. Metformin treatment reduced the ratio of total kidney weight to body weight relative to age- and sex-matched untreated controls at both 9 and 12 months and reduced cystic index in females at 9 months. Metformin also increased glomerular filtration rate (GFR), lowered systolic blood pressure, improved anemia, and lowered blood urea nitrogen levels relative to controls in both sexes. Moreover, metformin reduced gene expression of key inflammatory markers and both gene and protein expression of kidney injury marker-1 and cyclin-dependent kinase-1 vs. untreated controls. Altogether, these findings suggest several beneficial effects of metformin in this highly relevant slowly progressive ADPKD mouse model, which may help inform new ADPKD therapies in patients.

scholarly journals Association between urinary biomarkers and disease progression in adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-612
Author(s):  
Alfons Segarra-Medrano ◽  
Marisa Martin ◽  
Irene Agraz ◽  
Mercè Vilaprinyó ◽  
Betty Chamoun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Polycystic Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Function ◽  
Autosomal Dominant ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Polycystic Kidney ◽  
Β2 Microglobulin ◽  
Urinary Levels ◽  
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney ◽  
Egfr Slope

Abstract Background Height-adjusted total kidney volume (htTKV) is considered as the best predictor of kidney function in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), but its limited predictive capacity stresses the need to find new biomarkers of ADPKD progression. The aim of this study was to investigate urinary biomarkers of ADPKD progression. Methods This observational study included ADPKD patients, and two comparator groups of ischaemic and non-ischaemic kidney injury: benign nephroangiosclerosis patients and non-ischaemic chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Proteinuria, htTKV and urinary levels of molecules are associated with ischaemia and/or tubular injury. The slope of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was used as a dependent variable in univariate and multivariate models of kidney function decline. Results The study included 130 patients with ADPKD, 55 with nephroangiosclerosis and 40 with non-ischaemic CKD. All patients had increased urinary concentrations of biomarkers associated with tubular lesions (liver fatty acid-binding protein, kidney injury molecule-1, β2-microglobulin) and molecules overexpressed under ischaemic conditions [hypoxia-inducible factor-1α, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1)]. These biomarkers correlated positively with htTKV and negatively with the eGFR slope. htTKV was the single best predictor of the eGFR slope variability in univariate analyses. However, a multivariate model including urinary levels of β2-microglobulin, MCP-1 and VEGF improved the capacity to predict the decline of eGFR in ADPKD patients compared with htTKV alone. Conclusions The urinary levels of molecules associated with either renal ischaemia (VEGF and MCP-1) or tubular damage (β2-microglobulin) are associated with renal function deterioration in ADPKD patients, and are, therefore, candidates as biomarkers of ADPKD progression.

Kidney injury molecule-1 expression in murine polycystic kidney disease

2002 ◽  
Vol 283 (6) ◽  
pp. F1326-F1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Wolfgang Kuehn ◽  
Kwon Moo Park ◽  
Stefan Somlo ◽  
Joseph V. Bonventre
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Mouse Model ◽  
Polycystic Kidney Disease ◽  
Autosomal Dominant ◽  
Interstitial Fibrosis ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Polycystic Kidney ◽  
Tubular Cells ◽  
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney ◽  
Kidney Injury Molecule 1

Kidney injury molecule-1 (Kim-1) is a type 1 membrane protein maximally upregulated in proliferating and dedifferentiated tubular cells after renal ischemia. Because epithelial dedifferentiation, proliferation, and local ischemia may play a role in the pathophysiology of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, we investigated Kim-1 expression in a mouse model of this disease. In the Pkd2WS25/− mouse model for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, cystic kidneys show markedly upregulated Kim-1 levels compared with noncystic control kidneys. Kim-1 is present in a subset of cysts of different sizes and segmental origins and in clusters of proximal tubules near cysts. Kim-1-expressing tubular cells show decreased complexity and quantity of basolateral staining for Na-K-ATPase. Other changes in polarity characteristic of ischemic injury are not present in Kim-1-expressing pericystic tubules. Polycystin-2 expression is preserved in Kim-1-expressing tubules. The interstitium surrounding Kim-1-expressing tubules shows high proliferative activity and staining for smooth muscle α-actin, characteristic of myofibroblasts. Although the functional role of the protein in cysts remains unknown, Kim-1 expression in tubules is strongly associated with partial dedifferentiation of epithelial cells and may play a role in the development of interstitial fibrosis.

scholarly journals Acute kidney injury induces hallmarks of polycystic kidney disease

2016 ◽  
Vol 311 (4) ◽  
pp. F740-F751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almira Kurbegovic ◽  
Marie Trudel
Keyword(s):  
Acute Kidney Injury ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Polycystic Kidney Disease ◽  
Mouse Models ◽  
Ischemia Reperfusion Injury ◽  
Ischemia Reperfusion ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Polycystic Kidney ◽  
Stimulation Of

Acute kidney injury (AKI) and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) are considered separate entities that both frequently cause renal failure. Since ADPKD appears to depend on a polycystin-1 (Pc1) or Pc2 dosage mechanism, we investigated whether slow progression of cystogenesis in two Pkd1 transgenic mouse models can be accelerated with moderate ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). Transient unilateral left ischemic kidneys in both nontransgenic and transgenic mice reproducibly develop tubular dilatations, cysts, and typical PKD cellular defects within 3 mo post-IRI. Similar onset and severity of IRI induced-cystogenesis independently of genotype revealed that IRI is sufficient to promote renal cyst formation; however, this response was not further amplified by the transgene in Pkd1 mouse models. The IRI nontransgenic and transgenic kidneys showed from 16 days post-IRI strikingly increased and sustained Pkd1/Pc1 (>3-fold) and Pc2 (>8-fold) expression that can individually be cystogenic in mice. In parallel, long-term and important stimulation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α expression was induced as in polycystic kidney disease. While mammalian target of rapamycin signaling is activated, stimulation of the Wnt pathway, with markedly increased active β-catenin and c-Myc expression in IRI renal epithelium, uncovered a similar regulatory cystogenic response shared by IRI and ADPKD. Our study demonstrates that long-term AKI induces cystogenesis and cross talk with ADPKD Pc1/Pc2 pathogenic signaling.

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