Abstract
The present study was undertaken to study the mechanism of cyclosporine-induced nephrotoxicity and hypertension. Cultured rat microvascular endothelial cells were exposed to cyclosporine for up to six days at one of the following concentrations: 10, 50, 250, and 1000 ng/ml of culture medium. Cyclosporine inhibited endothelial cell replication in a dose-dependent manner; at higher concentrations (250 and 1000 ng/ml), cell replication decreased by as much as 70 to 90% of controls at four and six days post-treatment, with no evidence of increased cell death. Drug-treated endothelial cells revealed abnormal morphological changes such as formation of cytoplasmic vesicles and nucleolar changes. Prostacyclin release by endothelial cells was increased by about threefold with the addition of cyclosporine (P less than 0.01). Indomethacin significantly decreased prostacyclin release by endothelial cells in the presence or absence of cyclosporine (P less than 0.01). Our data suggest that cyclosporine-induced nephrotoxicity may be mediated, at least partly, by the inhibitory influence of cyclosporine on the regenerative response of microvascular endothelial cells to injury, and the resultant alterations in prostacyclin production by these cells.
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