Lili Cheng, Mengmeng Ge, Zhou Lan, Zhilong Ma, Wenna Chi, Wenhua Kuang, Kun Sun, Xinbin Zhao, Ye Liu, Yaqian Feng, Yuedong Huang, Maoguo Luo, Liping Li, Bin Zhang, Xiaoyu Hu, Lina Xu, Xiaohui Liu, Yi Huo, Haiteng Deng, Jinliang Yang, Qiaoran Xi, Yonghui Zhang, Julie A Siegenthaler, Ligong Chen
Zoledronate is a bisphosphonate that is widely used in the treatment of metabolic bone diseases. However, zoledronate induces significant nephrotoxicity associated with acute tubular necrosis and renal fibrosis when administered intravenously. There is speculation that zoledronate-induced nephrotoxicity may result from its pharmacological activity as an inhibitor of the mevalonate pathway but the molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. In this report, human proximal tubular HK-2 cells and mouse models were combined to dissect the molecular pathways underlying nephropathy caused by zoledronate treatments...
January 2018: Archives of Toxicology