Curcumin alleviates diabetic nephropathy via inhibiting podocyte mesenchymal transdifferentiation and inducing autophagy in rats and MPC5 cells

Context: Curcumin could ameliorate diabetic nephropathy (DN), but the mechanism remains unclear.Objective: The efficacy of curcumin on epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of podocyte and autophagy in vivo and in vitro was explored.Materials and methods: Thirty male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into the normal, model and curcumin (300 mg/kg/d, i.g., for 8 weeks) groups. Rats received streptozotocin (50 mg/kg, i.p.) and high-fat-sugar diet to induce DN. Biochemical indicators and histomorphology of renal tissues were observed. In addition, cultured mouse podocytes (MPC5) was induced to EMT with serum from DN rats, and then exposed to curcumin (40 µM) with or without fumonisin B1, an Akt specific activator or 3BDO, the mTOR inducer. Western blot analysed the levels of EMT and autophagy associated proteins.Results: Administration of curcumin obviously reduced the levels of blood glucose, serum creatinine, urea nitrogen and urine albumen (by 28.4, 37.6, 33.5 and 22.4%, respectively), and attenuated renal histomorphological changes in DN rats. Podocytes were partially fused and autophagic vacuoles were increased in curcumin-treated rats. Furthermore, curcumin upregulated the expression of E-cadherin and LC3 proteins and downregulated the vimentin, TWIST1, p62, p-mTOR, p-Akt and P13K levels in DN rats and MPC5 cells. However, fumonisin B1 or 3BDO reversed the effects of curcumin on the expression of these proteins in cells.Discussion and conclusions: The protection against development of DN by curcumin treatment involved changes in inducing autophagy and alleviating podocyte EMT, through the PI3k/Akt/mTOR pathway, providing the scientific basis for further research and clinical applications of curcumin.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:57

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Pharmaceutical biology - 57(2019), 1 vom: 19. Dez., Seite 778-786

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tu, Qiudi [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yiwen [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Xinxin [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Yan [VerfasserIn]
He, Qiang [VerfasserIn]

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5W494URQ81
Curcumin
EC 2.7.11.1
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
Glomerular podocytes
IT942ZTH98
Journal Article
MTOR
P13K/Akt
Plant Extracts
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
Streptozocin
TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases

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Date Completed 12.05.2020

Date Revised 04.12.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/13880209.2019.1688843

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM303444959