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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09630-2
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- Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) [235855, 235964, 272390]
- National University of Mexico [IN223915]
- CONACyT-Mexico
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This study evaluated if there is a sexual dimorphism in the acute kidney injury (AKI) to chronic kidney disease (CKD) transition and the time-course of the potential mechanisms involved in the dimorphic response. Female and male rats were divided into sham-operated or underwent 45-min renal ischemia (F + IR, and M + IR). All groups were studied at 24-h and 1, 2, 3, or 4-months post-ischemia. Additionally, oophorectomized rats were divided into sham or IR groups. After 24-h, AKI extent was simllar in females and males, but female rats exhibited less oxidative stress and increased renal GSH content. After 4-months and despite similar AKI, the M + IR group developed CKD characterized by proteinuria, tubulointerstitial fibrosis, glomerular hypertrophy, increased oxidative stress and a reduction in HIF1 alpha and VEGF from the 1st-month and persisting throughout the time-course studied. Interestingly, the F + IR group did not develop CKD due to lesser oxidative stress and increased eNOS, TGF beta and HIF1 alpha mRNA levels from the 1st-month after IR. Whereas, oophorectomized rats did develop CKD. We found a sexual dimorphic response in the AKI to CKD transition. Early antioxidant defense and higher TGF beta, HIF1a and eNOS were among the renoprotective mechanisms that the F + IR group demonstrated.
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