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ArticleJournal of inflammation research2025

Effects of Zofenopril and Thymoquinone in Cyclophosphamide-Induced Urotoxicity and Nephrotoxicity in Rats; The Value of Their Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Properties.

Neveen Nawzad Mahmood, Ban Mousa Rashid, Sakar Karem Abdulla, Bushra Hassan Marouf, Karmand Salih Hamaamin, Hemn Hassan Othman

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Article in Journal of inflammation research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Neveen Nawzad MahmoodDepartment of Basic Sciences-College of Pharmacy, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani-Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Ban Mousa RashidDepartment of Basic Sciences-College of Pharmacy, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani-Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Sakar Karem AbdullaDepartment of Basic Sciences-College of Pharmacy, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani-Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Bushra Hassan MaroufDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology-College of Pharmacy, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani-Kurdistan Region, Iraq.ORCID 0000-0002-7658-9013
Karmand Salih HamaaminDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology-College of Pharmacy, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani-Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Hemn Hassan OthmanDepartment of Basic Sciences-College of Pharmacy, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani-Kurdistan Region, Iraq.ORCID 0000-0002-1680-4674

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Abstract

Objective: The study aimed to investigate whether zofenopril (ZOF), thymoquinone (TQ), or their co-administration effectively ameliorates urotoxicity and nephrotoxicity following cyclophosphamide (CPH) treatment. Methods: A total of 48 Wister Albino female rats were divided into six groups each of eight rats; negative control (NC), positive control (PC), mesna (MS), ZOF, TQ, and ZOF+TQ groups. Normal saline, mesna, ZOF-15mg/kg, TQ-80mg/kg, and their combination were given orally for 19 days to the groups NC, MS, ZOF, TQ, and ZOF+TQ respectively. On the 17 Results: CPH disturbed the urinary excretion of urea, creatinine, and protein, and significantly elevated novel biomarkers for kidney injury including cystatin-C (Cys-C) (p=0.019) and markedly kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) (p=0.27), the semiquantitative measurement of hematuria revealed significant elevation of hematuria score (p=0.0002), urine pus and protein (p=0.0005). Additionally, CBC-derived inflammatory biomarkers including neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) (p=0.001), neutrophil-monocyte ratio (NMR) (p=0.0004), pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 (p=0.016) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α (p<=0.007), total antioxidant capacity (TAC) (p<0.0001) were significantly increased. Evidence of obvious histopathological structural alteration was noticed in kidney tissue and bladder urothelium in CPH-treated animals. ZOF, TQ, and their co-treatment significantly prevented these deleterious effects associated with CPH treatment. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that ZOF and TQ provided uroprotective and nephroprotective effects against CPH-induced nephrotoxicity by reducing kidney injury biomarkers, and CBC-derived inflammatory markers, restoring antioxidant capacity, and improving histopathological outcomes. The suggested mechanism involves the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity of TQ and the sulfhydryl-angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor ZOF.

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anti-inflammatorycyclophosphamidehemorrhagic cystitiskidneyoxidative stress

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PMCPMC11910925

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