In STCs from pigs with renal artery stenosis, elamipretide (mitoprotection) restored mitochondrial swelling.
In plain wordsIn pig kidney cells in the lab, elamipretide reversed mitochondrial swelling.
- Peptide
- Elamipretide (SS-31)
- Outcome
- DecreaseMitochondrial swelling in STCs
- Study
pign: not reported in source
Isolated pig scattered tubular cells (STCs)- Comparator
- Untreated STCs
- Outcome group
- Mitochondrial function · Kidney and urinary
- Studied dose
- 1 nM · incubation with cells · 6 hAs given in this study (pig).
Source sentences
STCs isolated from Lean + RAS and MetS + RAS pigs showed mitochondrial swelling and decreased matrix density, which were both restored by mitoprotection.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Pig STCs were isolated and characterized, and mitochondrial structure, membrane potential, and oxidative stress were assessed in cells untreated or incubated with the mitoprotective drug elamipretide (1 nM for 6 h).