VPA alleviates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats
10.3969/j.issn.1000-4718.2015.03.030
- VernacularTitle:丙戊酸钠减轻博莱霉素致大鼠肺纤维化
- Author:
Shuyan GAO
;
Tao FENG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Pulmonary fibrosis;
Bleomycin;
Sodium valproate;
α-smooth muscle actin;
E-cadherin
- From:
Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology
2015;(3):552-556
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
[ ABSTRACT] AIM:To investigate the effect of sodium valproate ( VPA) on bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibro-sis ( PF) and its mechanism.METHODS: SD rats ( n =42 ) were randomly divided into model group and treatment group.Bleomycin at dose of 5 mg/kg was intratracheally injected to establish a rat PF model.The rats in treatment group were given normal saline (NS, 0.5 mL/d), VPA (300 mg· kg-1· d-1) or dexamethasone (DEX, 0.6 mg· kg-1· d-1 ) via intraperitoneal injection from the 14th day to the 28th day after modeling.The rats in model group were sacrificed on 0 d, 14 day and 28 d after modeling .The rats in treatment group were killed at 14th day after treatment.The effects of VPA on PF were evaluated by HE and Masson staining.The hydroxyproline ( HYP) content in the rat lung tissues was de-tected, and the expression ofα-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) and E-cadherin was determined by Western blotting.RE-SULTS:HE staining showed that the alveolar structure and interstitial morphology in VPA group were better than those in NS group and DEX group.The level of collagen in VPA group was significantly lower than that in DEX group and NS group by determining the HYP content and Masson staining.VPA reduced the expression ofα-SMA, a mesenchymal marker pro-tein of PF, while increased the expression of epithelial marker protein E-cadherin.CONCLUSION:VPA reduces collagen content and distribution, and up-regulates the expression of the epithelial marker protein E-cadherin, while down-regulates mesenchymal marker proteinα-SMA, thereby preventing the rat lung tissues from bleomycin-induced PF.
