title: Reversal of cardiac and renal fibrosis by pirfenidone and spironolactone in streptozotocin-diabetic rats.
abstract: Fibrosis leads to chronic impairment of cardiac and renal function and thus reversal of existing fibrosis may improve function and survival. This project has determined whether pirfenidone, a new antifibrotic compound, and spironolactone, an aldosterone antagonist, reverse both deposition of the major extracellular matrix proteins, collagen and fibronectin, and functional changes in the streptozotocin(STZ)-diabetic rat. Streptozotocin (65 mg kg(-1) i.v.)-treated rats given pirfenidone (5-methyl-1-phenyl-2-[1H]-pyridone; approximately 200 mg kg(-1) day(-1) as 0.2 - 2g 1(-1) drinking water) or spironolactone (50 mg kg(-1) day(-1) s.c.) for 4 weeks starting 4 weeks after STZ showed no attenuation of the increased blood glucose concentrations and increased food and water intakes which characterize diabetes in this model. STZ-treatment increased perivascular and interstitial collagen deposition in the left ventricle and kidney, and surrounding the aorta. Cardiac, renal and plasma fibronectin concentrations increased in STZ-diabetic rats. Passive diastolic stiffness increased in isolated hearts from STZ-diabetic rats. Both pirfenidone and spironolactone treatment attenuated these increases without normalizing the decreased +dP/dt(max) of STZ-diabetic hearts. Left ventricular papillary muscles from STZ-treated rats showed decreased maximal positive inotropic responses to noradrenaline, EMD 57033 (calcium sensitizer) and calcium chloride; this was not reversed by pirfenidone or spironolactone treatment. STZ-treatment transiently decreased GFR and urine flow rates in isolated perfused kidneys; pirfenidone but not spironolactone prevented the return to control values. Thus, short-term pirfenidone and spironolactone treatment reversed cardiac and renal fibrosis and attenuated the increased diastolic stiffness without normalizing cardiac contractility or renal function in STZ-diabetic rats.
authors: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Miric
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Dallemagne
authors: Z
authors: Z
authors: Endre
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Margolin
authors: S M
authors: SM
authors: Taylor
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Brown
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000494:pharmacology; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D002122:Calcium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004326:Drinking / Q000187:drug effects; D004435:Eating / Q000187:drug effects; D005355:Fibrosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007668:Kidney / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D000451:Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D011728:Pyridones / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011804:Quinolines / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013148:Spironolactone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013829:Thiadiazines / Q000494:pharmacology; D014661:Vasoconstriction / Q000187:drug effects; D014662:Vasoconstrictor Agents / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D001786:Blood Glucose; D000451:Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists; D011728:Pyridones; D011804:Quinolines; D013829:Thiadiazines; D014662:Vasoconstrictor Agents; C070609:EMD 53998; D013148:Spironolactone; C093844:pirfenidone; D002122:Calcium Chloride; D009638:Norepinephrine