Combined saline and vildagliptin induced M2 macrophage polarization in hepatic injury induced by acute kidney injury

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Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Experimental animals and groups

Biochemical analysis

Real-time PCR analysis for expression of mRNA of liver c-fos, c-Jun, and high-mobility-group-box1 (HMGB1)

Total RNA extraction and reverse transcription

Quantitative real-time PCR

Detection of MAPK and AP-1 by western blot technique

Statistical analysis

Results

Serum measurements

Tissue markers measured in the liver

Discussion

Conclusions and recommendations

Supplemental Information

AKI significantly increased AP-1 protein expression while administering Saline, vildagliptin, and combined treatment significantly downregulated AP-1 expression compared to the AKI group.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14724/supp-1

Beta actin as a western blotting loading control.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14724/supp-2

AKI significantly increased MAPK protein expression while administering Saline, vildagliptin, and combined treatment significantly downregulated MAPK expression compared to the AKI group.

Combined treatment significantly downregulated MAPK expression compared to the saline-treated group and the vildagliptin-treated group.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14724/supp-3

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Shaimaa N. Amin conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Hader I. Sakr conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Walaa B. El Gazzar performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Sherif A. Shaltout performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Hazem S. Ghaith performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Dalia A. Elberry performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The Institutional Review Board of The Hashemite University approved the study (5/7/2020/2021).

DNA Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of DNA sequences:

Sequences are available at GenBank: NM_022197.2, NM_021835.3, NM_012963.2, NM_031144.3.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The data is available at Figshare: Amin, Shaimaa (2022): data files, liver in AKI. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17680328.v1.

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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