Objective: To observe the preventive effect of multi-glycoside of Tripterygium Wilfordii Hook. f. (GYW) on proteinuria and mesentery injury in experimental mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis in vivo.
Methods: The reversible anti-Thyl.1 antibody glomerulo nephritis model of rats was established with monoclonal antibody 1-22-3 and intervened with GTW, and a control group was set up in the same time. Changes of 24h urinary protein excretion, serum creatinine (Scr), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), total plasma protein (TP) and glomerular morphology were observed, and the level of mRNA expression of proliferative factors, including platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB) and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), in renal tissue was determined.
Results: GTW could inhibit proteinuria and mesangial injury in anti-Thyl. 1 antibody nephritis model. The PDGF-BB and TGF-beta mRNA expression in the anti-Thy1.1 antibody nephritis model rats were increased for 2.84 and 1.64 times respectively to those in the normal control group. GTW could down-regulate the over-expression of PDGF-BB mRNA by 33.1%, it was significantly different to that in the control group (P < 0.05).
Conclusion: GTW could reduce the proteinuria and inhibit mesangial cells proliferation and extracellular matrix deposition, these effects maybe related to the down-regulating of PDGF-BB mRNA expression.