Diabetes 51:3283-3289, 2002
© 2002 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.
ALT-946 and Aminoguanidine, Inhibitors of Advanced Glycation, Improve Severe Nephropathy in the Diabetic Transgenic (mREN-2)27 Rat
Jennifer L. Wilkinson-Berka1,
Darren J. Kelly2,
Suzanne M. Koerner1,
Kassie Jaworski1,
Belinda Davis3,
Vicki Thallas3, and
Mark E. Cooper3
1 Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
2 Department of Medicine, St. Vincents Hospital, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
3 Department of Medicine, the Austin Repatriation Hospital Medical Centre, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
The severe diabetic nephropathy that develops in the hypertensive transgenic (mRen-2)27 rat with streptozotocin (STZ) diabetes has previously been considered angiotensin II-dependent. Because metabolic pathways are also activated in the diabetic kidney, the present study aimed to determine whether renoprotection could be afforded with inhibitors of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), ALT-946, and aminoguanidine (AG). At 6 weeks of age, nondiabetic control and STZ diabetic Ren-2 rats were randomized to receive vehicle, ALT-946 (1 g/l), or AG (1 g/l) and were studied for 12 weeks. Systolic blood pressure was unchanged with diabetes, ALT-946, or AG. Both kidney weight and glomerular filtration rate were increased with diabetes and unchanged with ALT-946 or AG. ALT-946 and AG equally ameliorated glomerulosclerosis and medullary pathology; however, ALT-946 did reduce cortical tubular degeneration to a greater extent than AG. Albumin excretion rate, which was elevated with diabetes, was reduced with ALT-946 but not AG. AGE immunolabeling was increased in glomeruli and reduced with ALT-946 and AG. These findings indicate that even in the context of renal injury presumed to be primarily blood pressure- and/or angiotensin II-dependent, approaches that interfere with metabolic pathways such as inhibitors of AGE formation can confer renal protection in experimental diabetes.

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