Dioscorea zingiberensis ameliorates diabetic nephropathy by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome and curbing the expression of p66Shc in high-fat diet/streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice

Chaoxing Ren, Xiaowei Zhou, Xiaowen Bao, Jie Zhang, Jun Tang, Zhiming Zhu, Nan Zhang, Yu Bai, Youli Xi, Qi Zhang, Bo Ma

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Objectives: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a severe diabetic complication. Dioscorea zingiberensis (DZ) possesses excellent pharmacological properties with lower toxicity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy and mechanism of DZ in DN. Methods: DN was established by the high-fat diet combining intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin in mice. The DZ (125 and 250 mg/kg/day) were intragastrical administered for 8 consecutive weeks. After treatment, blood, urine and kidney tissue were collected for biological detection, renal morphology, fibrosis and molecular mechanism research, respectively. Key findings: This study has shown that DZ significantly ameliorated kidney hypertrophy, renal structural damage and abnormal function of the kidney indicators (creatinine, urinary protein and blood urea nitrogen). Further molecular mechanism data suggested that the NLRP3/Cleaved-caspase-1 signal pathway was remarkably activated in DN, and DZ treatment reversed these changes, which indicated that it effectively attenuated inflammatory response caused by hyperglycaemia. In addition, DN inhibits hyperglycaemia-induced activation of oxidative stress by suppressing the expression of p66Shc proteins. Conclusions: DZ could efficiently suppress oxidative stress and inflammatory responses to postpone the development of DN, and its mechanism might be related to inhibition of NLRP3 and p66Shc activities. Thus, DZ could be developed into a new therapeutic agent for DN.

源语言英语
页(从-至)1218-1229
页数12
期刊Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
73
9
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 1 9月 2021

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