Lixin Fang, Koji Ohashi, Satoko Hayakawa, Hayato Ogawa, Naoya Otaka, Hiroshi Kawanishi, Tomonobu Takikawa, Yuta Ozaki, Kunihiko Takahara, Minako Tatsumi, Mikito Takefuji, Yuuki Shimizu, Yasuko K Bando, Yuya Fujishima, Norikazu Maeda, Iichiro Shimomura, Toyoaki Murohara, Noriyuki Ouchi
Although chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major health problem worldwide, its underlining mechanism is incompletely understood. We previously identified adipolin as an adipokine which provides benefits for cardiometabolic diseases. Here, we investigated the role of adipolin in the development of CKD. Adipolin-deficiency exacerbated urinary albumin excretion, tubulointerstitial fibrosis and oxidative stress of remnant kidneys in mice after subtotal nephrectomy through inflammasome activation. Adipolin positively regulated the production of ketone body, β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) and expression of a catalytic enzyme producing BHB, HMGCS2 in the remnant kidney...
May 19, 2023: IScience