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Received September 7, 2007
Accepted on December 5, 2007

BASIC RESEARCH

TLR4 Signaling Mediates Inflammation and Tissue Injury in Nephrotoxicity

Binzhi Zhang ^*, Ganesan Ramesh ^*, Satoshi Uematsu , Shizuo Akira , and W. Brian Reeves ^*1

*Division of Nephrology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; and Lebanon VA Medical Center, Lebanon, Pennsylvania

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wreeves{at}psu.edu.

	Abstract

The molecular mechanisms of acute kidney injury (AKI) remain unclear. Toll-like receptors (TLRs), widely expressed on leukocytes and kidney epithelial cells, regulate innate and adaptive immune responses. The present study examined the role of TLR signaling in cisplatin-induced AKI. Cisplatin-treated wild-type mice had significantly more renal dysfunction, histologic damage, and leukocytes infiltrating the kidney than similarly treated mice with a targeted deletion of TLR4 [Tlr4(-/-)]. Levels of cytokines in serum, kidney, and urine were increased significantly in cisplatin-treated wild-type mice compared with saline-treated wild-type mice and cisplatin-treated Tlr4(-/-) mice. Activation of JNK and p38, which was associated with cisplatin-induced renal injury in wild-type mice, was significantly blunted in Tlr4(-/-) mice. Using bone marrow chimeric mice, it was determined that renal parenchymal TLR4, rather than myeloid TLR4, mediated the nephrotoxic effects of cisplatin. Therefore, activation of TLR4 on renal parenchymal cells may activate p38 MAPK pathways, leading to increased production of inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF- and subsequent kidney injury. Targeting the TLR4 signaling pathways may be a feasible therapeutic strategy to prevent cisplatin-induced AKI in humans.

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