title: Effects of cyclohexenonic long-chain fatty alcohol in type 2 diabetic rat nephropathy.
abstract: We attempted to clarify the effects of cyclohexenonic long-chain fatty alcohol (CHLFA) on the alterations of type 2 diabetes-induced nephropathy. Forty-week-old male Goto-Kakizaki (GK) and Wistar rats were divided into four groups of 6 to 8 animals. Group A consisted of eight Wistar rats and served as an age-matched control group. Group B (7 GK rats) received no treatment and served as a diabetic group. Group C (6 GK rats) was treated daily with low-dose CHLFA (2 mg/ kg/body weight, subcutaneously) for 30 weeks, and Group D (6 GK rats) with high-dose CHLFA (8 mg/kg/body weight) for 30 weeks. At the end of the treatment period, urinary protein excretion, blood chemistry, renal histological, and immunohistological analyses were conducted. Although CHLFA administration did not influence serum glucose or insulin levels, it reversed diabetes-induced increases in urinary protein excretion and serum creatinine. Light microscopically, CHLFA treatment ameliorated the otherwise elevated glomerular sclerotic scores in the diabetic group.Immunohistochemically, increased expression of desmin and decreased expression of rat endothelial cell antigen-1 in the group with untreated diabetes both showed a reversal to control levels in the high-dose CHLFA treatment group. In conclusion, CHLFA may ameliorate type 2 diabetes-induced nephropathy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatrics and Perinatology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Motoaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Yukako
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Itaru
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawaba
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oite
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kanzaki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005233:Fatty Alcohols / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006652:Histological Techniques; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D005233:Fatty Alcohols; D007328:Insulin