IMR Press / FBS / Volume 15 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.31083/j.fbs1504014
Open Access Original Research
Fisetin Treats Kidney Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, and Apoptosis in Rat Diarrhea
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1 Department of Medical Physiology, Medical Research and Clinical Studies Institute, National Research Centre, 12622 Dokki, Giza, Egypt
2 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, 12211 Giza Square, Giza, Egypt
*Correspondence: kkoriem@yahoo.com (Khaled M. M. Koriem)
Front. Biosci. (Schol Ed) 2023, 15(4), 14; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbs1504014
Submitted: 24 September 2023 | Revised: 10 November 2023 | Accepted: 16 November 2023 | Published: 12 December 2023
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Diarrhea is the increase in the excretion of human water; meanwhile, fisetin, a bioactive flavonol molecule, is widely used in the treatment/prevention of gastrointestinal disorders. The purpose of this study is to investigate the anti-diarrheal activity of fisetin by restoring kidney function, antioxidant activity, inflammatory markers, Na+/K+-ATPase level, apoptosis, and protein content in diarrheal rats. Methods: A total of 36 male rats were distributed into two groups (18 rats/group): normal and diarrheal. The normal group was further divided into three subgroups (6 rats/subgroup): Control, fisetin, and desmopressin drug subgroups, consisting of normal rats orally treated once a day for 4 weeks with 1 mL distilled water, 50 mg/kg fisetin, and 1 mg/kg desmopressin drug, respectively. A lactose diet containing 35% lactose was fed to the normal rats for a month. The diarrheal rats were also divided into three subgroups (6 rats/subgroup): diarrheal rats, diarrheal rats + fisetin, and diarrheal rats + desmopressin drug groups, whereby the diarrheal rats were orally treated once a day for 4 weeks with 1 mL distilled water, 50 mg/kg fisetin, and 1 mg/kg desmopressin drug, respectively. Results: Fisetin significantly decreased serum urea (41.20 ± 2.6–29.74 ± 2.65), creatinine (1.43 ± 0.05–0.79 ± 0.06), and urinary volume (1.30 ± 0.41–0.98 ± 0.20), while significantly increasing kidney weight (0.48 ± 0.03–0.67 ± 0.07), sodium, potassium, and chloride balance in both serum and urine. Fisetin significantly increased the antioxidant activity (superoxide dismutase (1170 ± 40–3230 ± 50), glutathione peroxidase (365 ± 18–775 ± 16), catalase (0.09 ± 0.03–0.14 ± 0.06), and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate hydrogen (NADPH) oxidase activity (8.6 ± 1.31–10.5 ± 1.25), while significantly decreasing malondialdehyde (19.38 ± 0.54–9.54 ± 0.83), conjugated dienes (1.86 ± 0.24–1.64 ± 0.19), and oxidative index (0.62 ± 0.04–0.54 ± 0.05)), alongside the inflammatory markers (tumor necrosis factor-α (65.2 ± 2.59–45.3 ± 2.64), interleukin-1β, interleukin-6 (107 ± 4.5–56.1 ± 7.2), and interleukin-10) in the diarrheal rats to values approaching the control values. Fisetin also restored the Na+/K+-ATPase level, apoptosis, protein content, and kidney architecture in diarrheal rats to be near the control group. Conclusions: Fisetin treated diarrhea in rats by restoring kidney function, antioxidant activity, inflammatory markers, apoptosis, proteome content, and histology.

Keywords
fisetin
diarrhea
sodium
potassium
oxidative stress
apoptosis
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