title: Hepatocyte growth factor prevents acute renal failure and accelerates renal regeneration in mice.
abstract: Although acute renal failure is encountered with administration of nephrotoxic drugs, ischemia, or unilateral nephrectomy, there has been no effective drug which can be used in case of acute renal failure. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a potent hepatotropic factor for liver regeneration and is known to have mitogenic, motogenic, and morphogenic activities for various epithelial cells, including renal tubular cells. Intravenous injection of recombinant human HGF into mice remarkably suppressed increases in blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine caused by administration of cisplatin, a widely used antitumor drug, or HgCl2, thereby indicating that HGF strongly prevented the onset of acute renal dysfunction. Moreover, exogenous HGF stimulated DNA synthesis of renal tubular cells after renal injuries caused by HgCl2 administration and unilateral nephrectomy and induced reconstruction of the normal renal tissue structure in vivo. Taken together with our previous finding that expression of HGF was rapidly induced after renal injuries, these results allow us to conclude that HGF may be the long-sought renotropic factor for renal regeneration and may prove to be effective treatment for patients with renal dysfunction, especially that caused by cisplatin.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biochemistry, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kawaida
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shimazu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000097:blood; D000818:Animals; D001806:Blood Urea Nitrogen; D016466:CHO Cells; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D006224:Cricetinae; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008627:Mercuric Chloride / Q000633:toxicity; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008940:Mitotic Index / Q000187:drug effects; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012038:Regeneration / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D008627:Mercuric Chloride; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor; D003404:Creatinine; D000410:Alanine Transaminase