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JOURNAL OF DIABETES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 604-611Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2014.05.010
Keywords
Cellular senescence; Diabetic nephropathy; p21; Insulin; Proximal tubular cells; Sodium glucose cotransporter 2
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [23790299]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23790299, 25670382, 24390195, 26115008] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Aims: Kidney cells in patients with diabetic nephropathy are reported to be senescent. However, the mechanisms that regulate cellular senescence in the diabetic kidney are still unknown. In the present study, we evaluated the contribution of high glucose to renal cell senescence in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mice. Methods: Non-diabetic and streptozotocin (STZ, 10 mg kg(-1) day(-1) for 7 days, i.p.)-induced type 1 diabetic C57BL/6 J mice and cultured human proximal tubular cells were used in this study. Results: Hyperglycemia dramatically increased the renal expression of p21 but not other CDK inhibitors such as p16 and p27 at 4 weeks after STZ injection. These changes were accompanied by an increase in senescence-associated beta-galactosidase staining in tubular epithelial cells. Administration of insulin at doses that maintained normoglycemia or mild hypoglycemia suppressed the changes induced by STZ. Insulin did not affect the senescent markers in non-diabetic mice. Exposure of cultured human proximal tubular cells to 25 mmol/L, but not 8 mmol/L, glucose medium increased the expression of senescence markers, which was suppressed by knock-down of p21 or sodium glucose cotransporter (SGLT) 2. Conclusions: These results suggest that hyperglycemia causes tubular senescence via a SGLT2- and p21-dependent pathway in the type 1 diabetic kidney. (c) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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