Anti-mitogenic effects of sarpogrelate in cultured rat mesangial cells |
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Authors: | Y Eto K Nitta K Uchida T Tsutsui K Natori A Kawashima W Yumura H Nihei |
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Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan. |
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Abstract: | We investigated the effects of the new 5-HT2A receptor antagonist, sarpogrelate, on DNA synthesis in renal mesangial cells stimulated with 5-HT in the presence and absence of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-BB. Both 5-HT and PDGF-BB demonstrated a mitogenic effect on these cells. When mesangial cells were incubated in the absence of PDGF-BB, sarpogrelate inhibited DNA synthesis in these cells in a dose-dependent manner. In the presence of PDGF-BB, sarpogrelate had a weaker anti-mitogenic effect in mesangial cells stimulated with 5-HT. Sarpogrelate was cytotoxic at concentrations over 10(-5) M according to the results of LDH release assays, and it reduced the S1 phase in mesangial cells stimulated with 5-HT by a flow cytometry. These findings suggest that sarpogrelate may be effective in the treatment of some glomerulonephritis associated with mesangial cell proliferation. |
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