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ArticleGender medicine2012

Sexual dimorphism in development of kidney damage in aging Fischer-344 rats.

Jennifer M Sasser, Oladele Akinsiku, Natasha C Moningka, Katie Jerzewski, Chris Baylis, Amanda J LeBlanc, Lori S Kang, Amy L Sindler, Judy M Muller-Delp

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Article in Gender medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jennifer M SasserDepartment of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. jsasser@umc.edu
Oladele Akinsiku
Natasha C Moningka
Katie Jerzewski
Chris Baylis
Amanda J LeBlanc
Lori S Kang
Amy L Sindler
Judy M Muller-Delp
University of Florida · USWest Virginia University · US

Funding

UF Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR000064 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI NELSON, DAVID R · 2012 to 2014
$12.2M
Nitrix Oxide in Chronic Renal DiseaseR01DK056843 · NIDDK · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI BAYLIS, CHRISTINE · 2001 to 2015
$3.4M
Aging, Estrogen, and Coronary Endothelial FunctionR01HL077224 · NHLBI · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI DELP, JUDY M · 2005 to 2008
$1.4M
Short-Term Training in Biomedical Research for Under-Represented MinoritiesR25HL103181 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI WOOD, CHARLES E · 2010 to 2014
$591k
Training in Endocrine, Metabolic, and Prenatal Basis of Chronic Kidney DiseaseT32DK076541 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI WOOD, CHARLES E · 2008 to 2012
$339k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000064NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL077224NHLBI NIH HHS R25 HL103181NHLBI NIH HHS R25HL103181NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK056843NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK56843NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK076541NIDDK NIH HHS T32DK076541
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAging kidneys exhibit slowly developing injury and women are usually protected compared with men, in association with maintained renal nitric oxide.

objectivesOur purpose was to test 2 hypotheses: (1) that aging intact Fischer-344 (F344) female rats exhibit less glomerular damage than similarly aged males, and (2) that loss of female ovarian hormones would lead to greater structural injury and dysregulation of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) system in aging F344 rat kidneys.

methodsWe compared renal injury in F344 rats in intact, ovariectomized, and ovariectomized with estrogen replaced young (6 month) and old (24 month) female rats with young and old intact male rats and measured renal protein abundance of NOS isoforms and oxidative stress.

resultsThere was no difference in age-dependent glomerular damage between young or old intact male and female F344 rats, and neither ovariectomy nor estrogen replacement affected renal injury; however, tubulointerstitial injury was greater in old males than in old females. These data suggest that ovarian hormones do not influence these aspects of kidney aging in F344 rats and that the greater tubulointerstitial injury is caused by male sex. Old males had greater kidney cortex NOS3 abundance than females, and NOS1 abundance (alpha and beta isoforms) was increased in old males compared with both young males and old females. NOS abundance was preserved with age in intact females, ovariectomy did not reduce NOS1 or NOS3 protein abundance, and estrogen replacement did not uniformly elevate NOS proteins, suggesting that estrogens are not primary regulators of renal NOS abundance in this strain. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase-dependent superoxide production and nitrotyrosine immunoreactivity were increased in aging male rat kidneys compared with females, which could compromise renal nitric oxide production and/or bioavailability.

conclusionsThe kidney damage expressed in aging F344 rats is fairly mild and is not related to loss of renal cortex NOS3 or NOS1 alpha.

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Sex CharacteristicsAge FactorsAgingAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleKidney CortexKidney GlomerulusMaleNitric OxideNitric Oxide Synthase Type INitric Oxide Synthase Type IIIRatsRats, Inbred F344Nitric OxideNitric Oxide Synthase Type INitric Oxide Synthase Type III

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PMID22819558
PMCPMC3461833
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