Article
Endothelin-1 aggravates hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced injury in renal epithelial cells through the activation of a Na+/Ca2+ exchanger.
Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology - 1 Nov 2004
Iwamoto Takahiro, Kita Satomi, Katsuragi Takeshi
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed the role of the Na/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) in hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced injury and also its interaction with endothelin-1 in the proximal epithelial cell line LLC-PK1. The hypoxia/reoxygenation protocol caused a significant leakage of lactate dehydrogenase from parental LLC-PK1 cells, which was markedly suppressed by KB-R7943, a selective NCX inhibitor. Overexpression of wild-type NCX1 into LLC-PK1...
Topics
- Animals
- Calcium
- Cell Hypoxia
- Cell Survival
- Dogs
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Endothelin-1
- Epithelial Cells
- Kidney
- LLC-PK1 Cells
- Mutation
- Reperfusion Injury
- Sodium-Calcium Exchanger
- Swine
- Thiourea
- Transfection
