title: Paeoniflorin prevents diabetic nephropathy in rats.
abstract: The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that paeoniflorin prevents the progression of diabetic nephropathy by modulating the inflammatory process. Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 5 groups: nondiabetic control rats; untreated diabetic model (DM) rats; and DM rats treated with 5, 10, or 20 mg/kg paeoniflorin in drinking water once daily. Rats received a single intravenous injection of streptozotocin to induce diabetes; 9 wk after injection, rats began the 8-wk daily paeoniflorin treatment regimen. Compared with that of nonDM controls, the urinary albumin:creatinine ratio was increased significantly in untreated DM rats; this ratio was decreased in DM rats treated with 5, 10, or 20 mg/kg paeoniflorin compared with that of untreated DM rats. In addition, paeoniflorin treatment effectively suppressed glomerular hypertrophy; blood glucose; the expression of transforming growth factor beta, type IV collagen, and intercellular adhesion molecule 1; and renal infiltration of macrophages compared with levels in untreated DM rats. Furthermore, renal nuclear factor kappaB activity was increased in untreated but not paeoniflorin-treated DM rats. In conclusion, our data suggest that the preventive effects of paeoniflorin may be mediated by its antiinflammatory actions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Jianfang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Nanyan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qiuhe
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ji
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D018932:Chemokine CCL2 / Q000378:metabolism; D017931:DNA Primers; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D018932:Chemokine CCL2; D017931:DNA Primers; D016328:NF-kappa B