Rangan GK, Wang Y, Harris DCH. Dietary quercetin augments activator protein-1 and does not reduce nuclear factor-kappa B in the renal cortex of rats with established chronic glomerular disease.
Nephron Clin Pract 2002;
90:313-9. [PMID:
11867952 DOI:
10.1159/000049067]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/AIMS
Quercetin, a naturally occurring dietary flavonoid, is a potent in vitro inhibitor of the transcription factors, nuclear factor (NF)-kappa B and activator protein (AP)-1. Here we investigated the efficacy of quercetin to suppress renal cortical NF-kappa B/AP-1 activation and tubulointerstitial injury, in vivo, in a nephrotic rat model of chronic glomerular disease.
METHODS
Adult male Wistar rats with (n = 27) or without (n = 15) Adriamycin nephropathy (AN) were stratified into six groups (according to proteinuria and endogenous creatinine clearance, measured on day 10) and pair-fed a semipurified diet supplemented with or without quercetin (0.5, 2%) from day 14 to 36.
RESULTS
Quercetin-fed rats had minimal weight gain during the study (p < 0.05). In AN, proteinuria, the decline in endogenous creatinine clearance, hypercholesterolaemia and cortical tubulointerstitial injury were not reduced by quercetin. Quercetin had no effect on renal cortical NF-kappa B activation, but unexpectedly exacerbated the induction of AP-1 in AN (by 67%, p < 0.05). In normal rats, quercetin increased proteinuria (by 75%, p < 0.05), renal cortical AP-1 activation (by 198%, p = 0.06), and malondialdehyde production (by 110%, p < 0.05).
CONCLUSION
These data suggest that supplementation of the diet with quercetin is not an effective therapeutic strategy alone to reduce NF-kappa B/ AP-1 activation in chronic glomerular diseases, and paradoxically could be associated with adverse renal effects.
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