Abstract

Treatment with autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) can change the natural history of diabetes in patients with new-onset Type 1 diabetes (T1D). Effects of syngeneic bone marrow transplantation (syn-BMT) on diabetic nephropathy were studied in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice. Diabetic mice received sibling's bone marrow on days 3, 10, 20, or 40 after T1D onset, respectively. Renal pathology, levels of oxidative stress, and the expressions of angiotensinogen (AGT), monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and transforming growth factor beta 1 (Tgf-β1) mRNA were investigated. Treatment with syn-BMT when disease was early-onset reduced mesangial area expansion and kidney enlargement; besides, if it is given on day 10, syn-BMT attenuated glomerular hypertrophy. Oxidative stress factors such as catalase (CAT) and superoxide radical anion O 2− (O 2−) were markedly maintained by syn-BMT compared to mice without treatment. In diabetic mice without treatment, renal AGT and MCP-1 mRNA were increased, while they were effectively suppressed by syn-BMT. But it showed no changes or even increment in Tgf-β1 mRNA after syn-BMT. Syn-BMT, if applied when disease was early-onset, ameliorated diabetic renal injury. These preventive effects could be partly via maintaining oxidative stress and expression of AGT and MCP-1 in kidney in streptozotocin-diabetic mice.

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