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The Deleterious Impact of Interleukin 9 to Hepatorenal Physiology

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IL-9 is a pleiotropic cytokine, recently recognized as belonging to Th9 cells that are involved in various pathologies. We aimed to evaluate the role of IL-9 in the course of hepatic and renal fibrosis. Female C57BL/6 mice were treated subcutaneously with IL-9 10 ng/mouse and 20 ng/mouse for 40 days, alternating every 5 days each application, the negative control of which was treated with PBS and positive control with CCL4. IL-9 demonstrated fibrogenic activity, leading to increased collagen I and III deposition in both liver and kidney, as well as triggering lobular hepatitis. In addition, IL-9 induced an inflammatory response with recruitment of lymphocytes, neutrophils, and macrophages to both organs. The inflammation was present in the region of the portal and parenchymal zone in the liver and in the cortical and medullary zone in the kidney. IL-9 deregulated liver and kidney antioxidant activities. Our results showed that IL-9 was able to promote hepatorenal dysfunction. Moreover, IL-9 poses as a promising target for therapeutic interventions.

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  1. Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Nadjania Saraiva de Lira Silva

  2. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Rua Piauí, Bloco 2B, sala 2B200, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil

    Nadjania Saraiva de Lira Silva, Bruna Cristina Borges, Aline Alves da Silva, Patrícia de Castilhos, Thaíse Lara Teixeira, Samuel Cota Teixeira, Marlus Alves dos Santos, Tatiana Carla Tomiosso & Claudio Vieira da Silva

  3. Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade de Uberaba, Uberaba, MG, Brazil

    João Paulo Silva Servato

  4. Instituto de Genética e Bioquímica, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil

    Allisson Benatti Justino, Douglas Carvalho Caixeta & Foued Salmen Espindola

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NSLS led the project activities, performed experiments, and wrote the manuscript. BCB, AAS, PC, TLT, SCT, MAS, JPSS, ABJ, and DCC contributed to the experiment procedures and manuscript formatting. RGZ, TCT, FSE, and MJBS provided reagents, equipment, and facility access and contributed to the intellectual content of the manuscript. CVS coordinated, supervised, and planned the project and wrote the manuscript.

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de Lira Silva, N.S., Borges, B.C., da Silva, A.A. et al. The Deleterious Impact of Interleukin 9 to Hepatorenal Physiology. Inflammation 42, 1360–1369 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10753-019-00997-0

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