| Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major medical challenge caused
from renal ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury connected with different cellular events in other distant organs. Renal IR-related
oxidative stress and inflammation followed by cell apoptosis play
a crucial role in IR-induced distant organ pathological damages.
Prazosin has shown protective effects against IR-injuries. Thus,
the current study intended to investigate the possible protective
role of prazosin against the consequents of renal IR in the heart
and brain tissues. To reach this goal, rats were randomly divided
into 3 groups (n = 7): Sham, IR and prazosin pretreatment-IR
animals (1mg/kg intraperitoneally injection of prazosin 45min
before IR induction). After 6h reperfusion, lipid peroxidation and
antioxidant markers levels were evaluated in the both, brain and
heart tissue. Moreover, apoptotic pathway in the heart and brain
tissues were assessed by western blotting. Accordingly, prazosin pretreatment in IR model rats could significantly increase the
antioxidant capacity and attenuate apoptotic pathways by increasing the bcl-2 levels and decreasing the expression of Bax
and caspase 3 enzymes (P < 0.05). Thus, prazosin suppressed
cellular damages of heart and brain tissues post kidney IR by
anti-oxidative and anti-apoptotic effects, which suggests the
plausible use of prazosin in improving the clinical outcomes during AKI after further investigations. |