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- Title
HGF gene therapy attenuates renal allograft scarring by preventing the profibrotic inflammatory-induced mechanisms.
- Authors
Herrero-Fresneda, I; Torras, J; Franquesa, M; Vidal, A; Cruzado, J M; Lloberas, N; Fillat, C; Grinyó, J M
- Abstract
Inflammatory processes and tissue scarring are characteristic features of chronic allograft nephropathy. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has beneficial effects on renal fibrosis and it also ameliorates renal interstitial inflammation as it has been recently described. Contrarily to protein administration, intramuscular gene electrotransfer allows sustained release of HGF. So, here we hypothesized that gene therapy with human HGF would diminish the characteristic scarring of chronic allograft nephropathy either by antagonizing tissue fibrosis mechanisms or by reducing inflammation. Lewis rats transplanted with cold preserved Fischer kidneys received vehicle (NoHGF) or intramuscular plasmid DNA encoding HGF plus electroporation either before transplantation (IniHGF, early post-transplant cytoprotection of tubular cells) or 8/10 weeks after transplantation (DelHGF, delayed prevention of chronic mechanisms). Serum creatinine and proteinuria were measured every 4 weeks for 24 weeks. Grafts at 12 or 24 weeks were evaluated for glomerulosclerosis, fibrosis inflammatory cells and mediators, cell regeneration and tubulo-interstitial damage. Nontreated animals developed renal insufficiency, progressive proteinuria and fibrosis among other characteristic histological features of chronic allograft nephropathy. Treatment with human HGF, especially when delayed until the onset of fibrogenic mechanisms, reduced renal failure and mortality, diminished tubule-interstitial damage, induced cell regeneration, decreased inflammation, NF-κB activation, and profibrotic markers at 12 weeks and prevented late interstitial fibrosis and glomerulosclerosis. The effectiveness of HGF-gene therapy in the prevention of renal allograft scarring is related with the halt of profibrotic inflammatory-induced mechanisms.Kidney International (2006) 70, 265–274. doi:10.1038/sj.ki.5001510; published online 17 May 2006
- Subjects
KIDNEY transplantation; HEPATOCYTE growth factor; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY diseases; NEPHROLOGY
- Publication
Kidney International, 2006, Vol 70, Issue 2, p265
- ISSN
0085-2538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.ki.5001510