Abstract
Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) occurs commonly during renal transplantation. It has been well demonstrated that the inflammatory response has an important role in the pathogenesis and pathological processes of IRI. However, the signaling events that trigger the activation of the inflammatory response are less clear. Accumulated evidence has identified the role of various injury factors released from or exposed in ischemic, damaged, or dying cells, which serve as initiators of the inflammatory response and exacerbate kidney injury after renal IRI. Signaling pathways triggered by these endogenous molecules that activate different pathogen recognition receptors have also been widely investigated. Here, we review the molecular signaling molecules that initiate the inflammatory response during renal IRI and that provide potential therapeutic options for the disease.
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Abbreviations
- AKI:
-
Acute kidney injury
- ASC:
-
Apoptosis associated speck-like protein containing a caspase recruitment domain
- BUN:
-
Blood urea nitrogen
- DAMPs:
-
Damage associated molecular patterns
- DAP:
-
Daphnetin
- DKO:
-
Double knockout
- Gly:
-
Glycyrrhizin
- HMGB1:
-
High-mobility group box 1
- HSPs:
-
Heat shock proteins
- IKK:
-
Nuclear factor of kappa light polypeptide gene enhancer in B-cells inhibitor Kinase
- IL:
-
Interleukin
- IRAK:
-
IL-1 receptor associated kinase
- IRI:
-
Ischaemia/reperfusion injury
- LRR:
-
Leucine-rich repeat
- MBL:
-
Mannan-binding lectin
- MyD88:
-
Myeloid differentiation protein 88
- NLAP:
-
Neutrophilic alkaline phosphatase
- NLRs:
-
Nucleotide binding and oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors
- NLRP3:
-
Nod-like receptors, the pyrin domain containing protein 3
- NF-κB:
-
Nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells
- PAMPs:
-
Pathogen-associated molecular patterns
- PRRs:
-
Pathogen recognition receptors
- P2RX7:
-
Purinergic receptor P2X, ligand-gated ion channel, 7
- ROS:
-
Reactive oxygen species
- RTECs:
-
Renal tubular epithelial cells
- TECs:
-
Tubular epithelial cells
- TLRs:
-
Toll-like receptors
- TRAM:
-
TRIF-related adaptor molecule
- TRAF6:
-
Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 6
- TRIF:
-
TIR domain-containing adapter inducing IFNβ
- TNF-α:
-
Tumor necrosis factor
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81771283, 81301019 to Lijuan Gu, No. 81571147 to Xiaoxing Xiong and No. 21708012 to Yao Sun). We thank Ann Turnley, PhD, from Li wen Bian ji, Edanz Group China (http://www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.
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Gu, L., Tao, Y., Chen, C. et al. Initiation of the inflammatory response after renal ischemia/reperfusion injury during renal transplantation. Int Urol Nephrol 50, 2027–2035 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-018-1918-6
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