Serum α-SMA is a potential noninvasive biomarker of liver fibrosis

肝星状细胞 形状记忆合金* 羟脯氨酸 纤维化 肝纤维化 四氯化碳 医学 病态的 肝活检 马森三色染色 生物标志物 病理 内科学 胃肠病学 活检 化学 四氯化碳 生物化学 数学 有机化学 组合数学
作者
Irina Cardoso-Lezama,Erika Ramos‐Tovar,Jaime Arellanes‐Robledo,Eduardo E. Vargas-Pozada,Verónica Rocío Vásquez-Garzón,Saúl Villa‐Treviño,Pablo Muriel
出处
期刊:Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods [Informa]
卷期号:34 (1): 13-19 被引量:1
标识
DOI:10.1080/15376516.2023.2244061
摘要

AbstractThe severity of fibrosis is central to the therapeutic course for patients with chronic liver disease; therefore, early detection of liver fibrosis is critical for timely therapeutic interventions. Liver biopsy is the gold standard for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis; however, it is contraindicated in several pathological conditions. Activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are the main cells for fibrotic tissue synthesis, such as that of alpha-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA). This study aimed to determine whether serum α-SMA levels are a suitable noninvasive, sensitive, and reliable liver fibrosis marker. Fibrosis was induced in male Wistar rats via chronic CCl4 administration. Fibrosis was determined in the liver tissues by quantifying the hydroxyproline content and visualized using Masson’s trichrome staining. Rats chronically administered CCl4 exhibited a progressive increment in the hepatic collagen content, as well as both hepatic and serum α-SMA levels in a time-dependent manner. Moreover, serum levels of α-SMA significantly correlated with hepatic α-SMA levels (p ≤ 0.001), as well as with the severity of liver fibrosis (p ≤ 0.001). These findings suggest that increased levels of serum α-SMA can be considered a potential reliable and noninvasive biomarker for early liver fibrosis.Keywords: Alpha-smooth muscle actinbiomarkerhepatic stellate cellsextracellular matrixHSC AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Dr. Víctor-Tsutsumi, Laura Dayana Buendia Montaño, Rosa E. Flores Beltrán, Benjamín E. Chávez, Ricardo Gaxiola, Rafael Leyva, Karla M. Gil Becerril, Silvia Galindo Gómez, Iván Galván Mendoza and Dr. Fernado Enríquez Rincón for technical assistance. The authors also acknowledge the Animal Lab Facility to UPEAL- Cinvestav and Dr. Jorge Fernández-Hernández.Author contributionsConceptualization: ICL, JAR, VRVG, SVT, PM; Data curation: ICL, PM; Formal analysis: ICL, PM; Funding acquisition: JAR, VRVG, SVT, PM; Investigation: ICL, ER, PM; Methodology: EEVP, ER, JAR; Project administration: PM; Supervision: PM; Writing-original draft: ICL; Writing-review & editing: PM.Ethical approvalThe experimental protocol was approved by the institutional animal care and use committee of CINVESTAV-IPN and was registered under the number 207 − 16.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe dataset analyzed during this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology (Conahcyt) of Mexico (grant. 53358 to P. Muriel), and fellowship no. 762331 to Irina Cardoso-Lezama.
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