Vol. 43 (2): 345-355, March – April, 2017
doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2016.0075
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Erdal Benli 1, Sema Nur Ayyildiz 2, Selma Cirrik 3, Sibel Koktürk 4, Abdullah Cirakoglu 1, Tevfik Noyan 2, Ali Ayyildiz 1, Cankon Germiyanoglu 5
1 Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey; 2 Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey; 3 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey; 4 Department of Histolology, Faculty of Medicine, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey; 5 Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Sepsis is an inflammatory reaction to bacteria involving the whole body and is a significant cause of mortality and economic costs. The purpose of this research was to determine whether tadalafil exhibits a preventive effect on sepsis in a septic model induced in rats with cecal ligation and puncture (CLP).
Materials and Methods: Rats were randomly separated into groups, 10 rats in each: (i) a sham (control) group, (ii) an untreated sepsis group, (iii) a sepsis group treated with 5mg/kg tadalafil and (iv) a sepsis group treated with 10mg/kg tadalafil. A polymicrobial sepsis model was induced in rats using CLP. Rats were sacrificed after 16h, and blood and kidney tissues were collected for biochemical and histopathological study.
Results: Levels of the inflammatory parameter IL-6 decreased significantly in the sepsis groups receiving tadalafil in comparison with the untreated sepsis group (p<0.05). In terms of histopathology, inflammation scores investigated in kidney tissues decreased significantly in the sepsis groups receiving tadalafil compared to the untreated sepsis group (p<0.05). In addition, levels of creatinine and cystatin C measured in septic rats receiving tadalafil were lower by a clear degree than in septic rats (p<0.05).
Conclusion: In this study, tadalafil exhibited a preventive effect for sepsis-related damage by suppressing inflammation in serum and kidney tissue of septic rats in a polymicrobial sepsis model induced with CLP.
Keywords: Acute Kidney Injury; Tadalafil; Kidney Failure, Chronic; Renal Insufficiency
