Resveratrol improves renal microcirculation, protects the tubular epithelium, and prolongs survival in a mouse model of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury.

Abstract

The mortality rate of patients who develop acute kidney injury during sepsis nearly doubles. The effectiveness of therapy is hampered because it is usually initiated only after the onset of symptoms. As renal microvascular failure during sepsis is correlated with the generation of reactive nitrogen species, the therapeutic potential of resveratrol, a polyphenol vasodilator that is also capable of scavenging reactive nitrogen species, was investigated using the cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) murine model of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury. Resveratrol when given at 5.5 h following CLP reversed the decline in cortical capillary perfusion, assessed by intravital microscopy, at 6 h in a dose-dependent manner. Resveratrol produced the greatest improvement in capillary perfusion and increased renal blood flow and the glomerular filtration rate without raising systemic pressure. A single dose at 6 h after CLP was unable to improve renal microcirculation assessed at 18 h; however, a second dose at 12 h significantly improved microcirculation and decreased the levels of reactive nitrogen species in tubules, while improving renal function. Moreover, resveratrol given at 6, 12, and 18 h significantly improved survival. Hence, resveratrol may have a dual mechanism of action to restore the renal microcirculation and scavenge reactive nitrogen species, thus protecting the tubular epithelium even when administered after the onset of sepsis.

• Authors: Joseph H Holthoff, Zhen Wang, Kathryn A Seely, Neriman Gokden, Philip R Mayeux
• Journal: Kidney international (Kidney Int) Vol. 81 Issue 4 Pg. 370-8 (Feb 2012) ISSN: 1523-1755 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 21975863 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)

Chemical References

• Antioxidants
• Reactive Nitrogen Species
• Stilbenes
• Vasodilator Agents
• Resveratrol

Topics

• Acute Kidney Injury (blood, drug therapy, physiopathology)
• Animals
• Antioxidants (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
• Blood Pressure (drug effects)
• Disease Models, Animal
• Epithelium (drug effects, pathology)
• Glomerular Filtration Rate (drug effects)
• Heart Rate (drug effects)
• Kidney (blood supply, pathology, physiopathology)
• Kidney Tubules (drug effects, pathology)
• Male
• Mice
• Mice, Inbred C57BL
• Microcirculation (drug effects)
• Reactive Nitrogen Species (blood)
• Resveratrol
• Sepsis (blood, complications)
• Stilbenes (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
• Survival Analysis
• Time Factors
• Vasodilator Agents (pharmacology, therapeutic use)