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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 545-549Publisher
ELSEVIER BRAZIL
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjid.2017.04.007
Keywords
Leishmaniasis; Renal; TLRs; Apoptosis
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- Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi [SB/SO/HS/0091/2013]
- ICMR, New Delhi, India [F/839/2011/ECD-II]
- DST, New Delhi, India [YSS/2015/000687]
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The present study was aimed to identify the underlying mechanisms of improper renal function in Leishmania donovani infection that causes VL. Mice (BALB/c) were infected with L. donovani and different parameters for proteinuria were assessed. The levels of superoxide anion (O-2(-)), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), lipid peroxidation (MDA), inflammatory cytokines, and toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and 4 expression were found significantly elevated at 60th day in these animals and declined at 90th day post infection. However, TGF-beta and caspase 3 activities were higher at 90th day in comparison to 60th day post infection. These findings suggested that exacerbated inflammatory conditions correlate with abnormal renal functions in L. donovani infection, which is further augmented by activated TLRs expressions by circulating leishmanial antigens. Further, the increased levels of TGF-beta and caspase 3 at 90th day suggested TGF-beta mediated apoptotic cell death of renal and other cells during later stages of disease that may eventually result in release of host and parasitic factors in urine during visceral leishmaniasis. (C) 2017 Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda.
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