title: Role of platelet-activating factor in adriamycin-induced nephropathy in rats.
abstract: The effect of steroids, heparin and specific PAF-acether antagonists (BN 52021 and triazolobenzodiazepines) on proteinuria and renal histological changes induced in rats by adriamycin was studied. Adriamycin evoked a marked proteinuria that was unaffected by methylprednisolone and slightly reduced by heparin. In contrast, adriamycin-injected rats treated with PAF-acether antagonists had a low proteinuria, if any, and no ultrastructural glomerular alterations. These data suggest that PAF-acether could play a major role in the occurrence of proteinuria and that PAF-acether antagonists might provide a new therapeutic approach in certain human nephropathies.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000633:toxicity*; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008775:Methylprednisolone / Q000494:pharmacology; D010972:Platelet Activating Factor / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D010972:Platelet Activating Factor; D004317:Doxorubicin; D008775:Methylprednisolone