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Coixol Protects Against Acute Kidney Injury by Reducing Cell Senescence.

Kang Li, Xiaoxue Wang, Huidi Tang, Feifan Wang, Zetong Qu, Xiaojie Wang, Xiang Li, Xiaoqing Cao

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Article in Biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kang LiDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.ORCID 0009-0007-0610-1864
Xiaoxue WangDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.
Huidi TangDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.
Feifan WangDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.
Zetong QuDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.
Xiaojie WangDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.
Xiang LiDepartment of Pharmacy, Shandong Public Health Clinical Center, Shandong University, Jinan 250013, China.
Xiaoqing CaoDepartment of Cardiology, Shandong Public Health Clinical Center, Shandong University, Jinan 250013, China.

Funding

Shandong Province Medical and Health Science and Technology Development Plan Project 2019WS527The National Nature Science Foundation of China 82170734
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Abstract

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with increased in-hospital mortality, yet effective therapeutic agents remain limited. Coixol, a polyphenolic compound derived from Coix, possesses anti-inflammatory properties, but its role in AKI remains unclear. In this study, we demonstrate that Coixol exerts protective effects against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced AKI by alleviating cellular senescence. Coixol treatment significantly reduced serum creatinine (SCr) and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) levels and decreased the expression of KIM1 and NGAL. RNA sequencing and validation experiments revealed that Coixol suppressed cellular senescence in AKI. Through a weighted gene co-expression network analysis and machine learning, we identified Plaur as a key target of Coixol, which was further validated using RNA-seq data. Notably, Plaur overexpression in AKI mice diminished the protective effects of Coixol, confirming its crucial role. Additionally, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations demonstrated strong binding affinity between Coixol and Plaur. These findings highlight Coixol as a promising renal protective agent targeting Plaur and cellular senescence in AKI.

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acute kidney injurycellular senescenceCoixolmachine learningmolecular dockingmolecular dynamicsPlaur

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PMID40427749
PMCPMC12109185

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