Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common disease that affects millions across the US and the globe. Patients with CKD experience an increased risk of venous thrombosis. Here we use two longstanding robust murine models of nephropathies in conjunction with a reliable murine model of venous thrombosis to model venous thrombosis risk in CKD. We show that in the adenine diet-induced CKD, increased concentrations of adenine in the diet result in increased histological evidence of nephropathy and increased venous thrombosis risk assessed by Inferior Vena Cava ligation. Next, we demonstrate that in unilateral ureteric obstruction models, the duration of obstruction is proportional to the nephropathies developed by histological assessment. In both models, we relate nephropathy to venous thrombosis risk. When probed for aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) activation, adenine diet-induced CKD mice show increased activation assessed by nuclear translocation of the receptor. This phenotype was confirmed in vitro when treating human telomerase immortalized human umbilical endothelial cells with uremic serum. Nuclear AHR was not observed in control conditions in vivo or in vitro. Pharmacologic AHR inhibition using a novel drug, BAY Compound, and a well-known AHR inhibitor were both able to abrogate uremic activation of AHR in vitro, which was then corroborated with in vivo studies. Tissue factor (TF) and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) are prothrombogenic proteins linked to AHR activation. TF and PAI-1 showed upregulation in CKD mice which were blocked when CKD mice were given AHR inhibitor BAY Compound. This work demonstrates a unique model of venous thrombosis in CKD and suggests that AHR inhibition may be able to limit the elevated risk of venous thrombosis associated with uremia. / 2026-03-08T00:00:00Z
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/48376 |
| Date | 08 March 2024 |
| Creators | Sellinger, Isaac Emanuel |
| Contributors | McKnight, C. James, Chitalia, Vipul |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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