The expression of A1M is up-regulated by elevated levels of free Hb, heme and ROS [23].
However, A1M treatment resulted in a transient increase in the total number of platelets 48 hours after the first injection and peripheral white blood cells, monocytes and lymphocytes 24 hours after the first injection.
However, A1M treatment led to a significant reduction in systolic, diastolic and mean arterial blood pressure 24 hours after the first injection (Figure 2, and Figure S1), but no change in heart rate (Figure S1).
The placenta histology revealed an increased erythrophagocytosis in the starved placebo treated animals compared to controls. A1M-treatment appeared to attenuate phagocytosis (Figure 5).
Podocyte necrosis was also frequently observed, leading to impaired glomerular barrier morphology with large basement membrane fenestrations (Figure 7B, arrowheads). Similar phenomena were observed in proximal tubules where starvation induced tubular damage with cell necrosis and an overall disturbed tubular morphology (Figure 7A, middle panel). These overall effects were reversed by A1M (Figure 7 A and B, lower panels).
Plasma creatinine concentration increased significantly in the placebo treated animals at 4 hours of follow-up, but not in the A1M treated group (Figure 9B).
Treatment with A1M led to a small, non-significant, transient increase in plasma interleukin 6 24 hours after the first injection.
Starvation led to a significantly down-regulation of the oxidative stress-related SOD1 (p,0.008) and catalase (p,0.043) in blood, but a 2.6-fold up-regulation of catalase in placenta (Figure 10A).
Treatment of starved ewes with A1M up-regulated the expression of SOD2 (p,0.043) and down-regulated the expression of s-Flt1 (p,0.012), in blood (Figure 11).
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