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Disruption of renal peritubular blood flow in lipopolysaccharide-induced renal failure: role of nitric oxide and caspases

¹Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and ²Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas

Submitted 29 March 2005 ; accepted in final form 28 June 2005

Acute renal failure (ARF) is a frequent and serious complication of endotoxemia caused by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and contributes significantly to mortality. The present studies were undertaken to examine the roles of nitric oxide (NO) and caspase activation on renal peritubular blood flow and apoptosis in a murine model of LPS-induced ARF. Male C57BL/6 mice treated with LPS (Escherichia coli) at a dose of 10 mg/kg developed ARF at 18 h. Renal failure was associated with a significant decrease in peritubular capillary perfusion. Vessels with no flow increased from 7 ± 3% in the saline group to 30 ± 4% in the LPS group (P < 0.01). Both the inducible NO synthase inhibitor L-N⁶-1-iminoethyl-lysine (L-NIL) and the nonselective caspase inhibitor benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp fluoromethylketone (Z-VAD) prevented renal failure and reversed perfusion deficits. Renal failure was also associated with an increase in renal caspase-3 activity and an increase in renal apoptosis. Both L-NIL and Z-VAD prevented these changes. LPS caused an increase in NO production that was blocked by L-NIL but not by Z-VAD. Taken together, these data suggest NO-mediated activation of renal caspases and the resulting disruption in peritubular blood flow are an important mechanism of LPS-induced ARF.

acute renal failure; inducible nitric oxide synthase; intravital videomicroscopy; benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp fluoromethylketone; L-N⁶-1-iminoethyl-lysine; apoptosis

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