Patent Abstract:
kidney toxicity which is induced by cisplatin and other therapeutic and diagnostic agents , limits the effectiveness of the therapy or diagnosis . modulation or depletion of t cells ameliorates the toxicity , permitting the use of cisplatin at levels and for durations which treat cancers more effectively . modulation and depletion can be accomplished using antibodies for t cell surface antigens as well as using other molecules which effectively antagonize or down - regulate the cytokines and / or chemokines which t cells elaborate .

Detailed Description:
the inventor has developed methods for preventing and / or treating toxicity associated with platinum - containing compound chemotherapy . platinum - containing compounds can cause , inter alia , kidney failure . the risk of this adverse outcome requires that the oncologist closely monitor the effects of the platinum - containing compound treatment and , if necessary , prematurely terminate the treatment . premature termination removes an important treatment from the armamentarium of the oncologist for treating cancers , e . g ., head and neck , lung , cervix , bladder , testicular , ovary and endometrial tumors . the inventor has discovered that t cells , such as cd4 + t cells and cd8 + t cells , mediate the toxic effects of platinum - containing compounds on the kidney . in the absence of t cells , the toxic effects do not occur . therefore , treatment of a patient receiving or about to receive platinum - containing compound in a manner which depletes t cells or modulates their activity , permits platinum - containing compounds to be used safely without premature termination . drugs for which the present invention applies include the platinum - containing compounds . food and drug administration - approved members of this family include cisplatin , carboplatin , and oxaliplatin . these are used for treating a broad variety of cancers . other such compounds include spiroplatin , iproplatin , jm216 , amd473 , and bbr3464 . other drugs which cause nephrotoxicity can also be used in conjunction with the kidney - saving treatments of the present invention . these drugs include both injectable and non - injectable drugs , chemotherapy drugs , antibiotics and contrast dyes . specific nephrotoxic drugs with which the present methods may be used include : mitomycin c , bisphosphonates , methotrexate , streptozotocin , nitrosoureas , cyclosporine , amphotericin , bifosfamide , cyclophosphamide , interferon - alpha , aminoglycoside antibiotics , x - ray contrast dyes , gemcytobine , and deoxycoformycin . t cells can be depleted or modulated according to the present invention for prevention , amelioration , and alleviation of kidney damage due to any of these nephrotoxic drugs or agents . antibodies can be used to deplete t cells in the patient under treatment . antibodies may be directed to t cells generically , to groups of t cells , or to particular types of t cells . antibodies to t cells generically include thymoglobulin ™ ( genzyme , cambridge , mass .). thymoglobulin is a polyclonal antibody that suppresses certain types of immune cells responsible for acute organ rejection in transplant patients . thymoglobulin is a mixture of antibodies which bind to various cell surface antigens . other suitable antibodies for this purpose are those which are anti - cd4 , anti - cd8 , anti - cd28 , anti - cd3 , anti - cd52 ( e . g ., alemtuzumab ( campath ®; genzyme , cambridge , mass . )), anti - cd154 , anti - icos receptor , anti - pd1 , and mab hyb - 241 ( hybritech ). the latter is a mouse monoclonal antibody which detects an extracellular epitope of p - glycoprotein . antibodies to ligands for cell surface markers may also be used to deplete antibodies . such ligands include t cell co - stimulatory factors b7h ( the icos ligand ), pd - l1 and pd - l2 . any antibodies , whether polyclonal or monoclonal , whether mouse , rabbit , goat , human , humanized , chimeric , etc ., can be used which bind to and deplete t cells . the t cell markers and antibodies mentioned here are well known in the art . one particular combination which can be used to good effect is a mixture of antibodies to cd4 , cd8 , and thy 1 . 2 ( cd90 ) antigens . other combinations of such antibodies can be used as well . for example , anti - cd4 antibodies can be used with any antibody directed against one or more of cd8 , cd28 , anti - cd52 , anti - icos receptor , anti - pd1 , cd3 ( e . g ., okt3 ; orthoclone ), cd154 . treatment with a combination of antibodies may be done sequentially or at one time as a cocktail or mixture . the antibodies in a combination can be raised against the same or different antigens . typical doses of antibodies are 0 . 1 - 30 mg / kg / day , 0 . 5 - 1 . 5 mg / kg / day , and 1 - 2 mg / kg / day , 3 - 10 mg / kg / day . potency of different antibodies will differ , and these doses are meant to be exemplary only . drugs can be used according to the present invention for downwardly modulating the activity of t cells in the patient under treatment . such drugs include mycophenolate mofetil ( cellcept ™; roche ), il - 10 , tgf - beta , cd152 , ctla - 4 - ig ( abatacept ™), tamoxifen ( e . g ., nolvadex d ®, soltamox ®, tamofen ®), and tju103 ( n -( 3 - indolylmethylene )- isonicotinic hydrazone ; alexis ). other drugs , including corticosteroids and other immunosuppressives that dampen t cell function , as are known in the art can be used as well . exemplary corticosteroids include betamethasone , budesonide , cortisone , dexamethasone , hydrocortisone , methylprednisolone , prednisolone , prednisone , triamcinolone , betamethasone . these drugs can be used alone or in combinations with each other or with other drugs . prevention and treatment as used herein refer to methods that are used either before or after , respectively , the onset of kidney toxicity and / or failure . the methods need not be 100 % effective to qualify as either prevention or treatment . methods that reduce the rate of occurrence in a population or which reduce the severity of symptoms qualify as prevention or treatment . according to certain embodiments of the invention , the level of cd4 + t cells in the patient &# 39 ; s peripheral blood after treatment for depletion is reduced to less than 50 %, 40 %, 30 %, 20 %, 10 %, or 5 % of the pretreatment or untreated level . according to certain other embodiments of the invention , the level of ifn - γ in the patient &# 39 ; s peripheral blood is reduced after treatment for depletion or modulation is reduced to less than 50 %, 45 %, 40 %, 35 %, 20 %, or 10 % of the pretreatment or untreated or unmodulated level . antibodies , small organic molecules , or other agents for depletion of t cells , such as cd4 + t cells , or for modulation of their activity can be administered by any means known in the art . typically such agents will be injected or infused intravenously , although other routes of administration are possible . other routes include , without limitation , intraperitoneal , intramuscular , transdermal , subcutaneous , per os . direct administration to the spleen , thymus , or lymph nodes , sites of t cell production , maturation , or concentration , can also be used . dosage of such agents can be those that are recommended by the manufacturer for other uses of these agents . kits can be formulated for treatments according to the present invention . such kits comprise at least two components . the components are packaged within a single divided or undivided container . instructions for using the components may be present as printed matter , on an electronic medium , or as a reference to an internet site . the components include a drug or agent which causes undesirable nephrotoxicity , as discussed above , and an agent for treating or preventing the nephrotoxicity , also as discussed above . according to one embodiment , the agent for treating or preventing nephrotoxicity is a platinum - containing compound . more than one nephrotoxicity - causing drug or agent and / or more than one nephrotoxicity - treating or - preventing agent may be included in the kit , either as mixtures or as separate components . the above disclosure generally describes the present invention . all references disclosed herein are expressly incorporated by reference . a more complete understanding can be obtained by reference to the following specific examples which are provided herein for purposes of illustration only , and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention . all animal study protocols have been reviewed and approved by the animal care and use committee of johns hopkins university ( iacuc ), and all experiments were conducted according to nih guidelines . t cell deficient athymic male mice ( b6 . cg - foxn1 nu , nu / nu ) and their c57bl / 6 wild type male littermates ( 6 - 8 wks , weighing 20 - 25 g ) were purchased from the jackson laboratory ( bar harbor , me ., usa ). the two main defects of t cell deficient mice homozygous for the nu / nu spontaneous mutation ( foxn / nu , formerly hfh11nu ) are the abnormal hair growth and defective development of the thymus . consequently , homozygous nu / nu mice lack t cells and cell - mediated immunity . genetically matched wild type male littermates were used as controls and as donors of t cells adoptive transfer . cd4 - deficient mice ( b6 . 129s2 - cd4tm1mak ), cd8 - deficient mice ( b6 . 129s2 - cd8atm1mak ) and their wild type littermates were also purchased from the jackson laboratory . mice were held under pathogen - free conditions in jhmi animal facility with air conditioning , 14 hr / 10 hr of light and dark cycle and were free access to food and water during the experiments . cisplatin ( cis - diammineplatinum ii dichloride , sigma - aldrich , st . louis , mo .) was dissolved in 0 . 9 % of saline at a concentration of 1 mg / ml . mice were given a single i . p . injection either with cisplatin ( 40 mg / kg body weight ) or with equal volume of saline . this dose was chosen based on our preliminary studies that lower doses did not give a consistent and significant renal dysfunction and tubular injury , but a dose of 40 mg / kg produced a predictable combination of survivability and acute renal failure from as early as 24 hr and reached a peak at 72 hr after cisplatin administration in c57bl6 wild type mice . for kidney t cell immunohistochemical staining , three wild type mice in each group were sacrificed at 1 hr , 6 hr , 12 hr , 24 hr or 72 hr after cisplatin injection . all nu / nu or knockout mice and their littermates were sacrificed at 24 hr or 72 hr after the cisplatin administration for histology or for kidney cytokine array . all collected mice kidneys were either fixed in 10 % buffered formalin for histology / immunohistochemistry , or snap frozen with liquid nitrogen for tissue cytokine array . blood samples were obtained from mice tails prior to ( 0 hr ) and at 24 hr , 48 hr and 72 hr after cisplatin injection . serum creatinine was measured as a marker of renal dysfunction by a roche cobas fara automated system ( roche , nutley , n . j ., usa ) using a creatinine 557 kit ( sigma diagnostics , st . louis , mo ., usa ). formalin - fixed paraffin - embedded sections of mice kidneys tissues were cut and stained with hematoxylin and eosin ( h & amp ; e ). renal tubular injury was assessed using a semi - quantitative scale . a pathologist blinded to the experiments scored the degrees of tubular injury . the magnitude of tubular epithelial cell loss , necrosis , intra - tubular debris and tubular cast formation was scored into six levels based on the percentage of affected tubules in a high power field ( hpf ) under light microscope . ( 0 : none ; 0 . 5 : & lt ; 10 %; 1 : 10 to 25 %; 2 : 25 to 50 %; 3 : 50 to 75 %; 4 : & gt ; 75 %). one group of nu / nu mice ( n = 5 ) received adoptive transfer of t cells from their littermate wild type mice . briefly , spleens collected from the normal c57bl / 6 wild type littermate mice were minced on a nylon mesh and filtered through a cell strainer ( 70 μm ). the obtained cell suspension was centrifuged to obtain splenocytes pellet . the red blood cells were removed by using a rbc lysis buffer ( ebioscience , san diego , calif .). t cells were enriched by a nylon wool column chromatography ( r & amp ; d system , minneapolis , minn .) according the manufacture &# 39 ; s instructions . after enrichment treatment , the purity of t cell suspension was greater than 90 %. approximately 3 × 10 6 enriched t cells were injected i . p . into each nu / nu mouse three weeks before cisplatin administration . this interval was chosen based on our preliminary studies which showed earlier time points had less efficient reconstitution . ( 14 ) to confirm t cell reconstitution in nu / nu mice , the spleens were collected from nu / nu mice with or without t cells transfer and from their wild type littermates upon sacrifice at 72 hr post cisplatin . the splenocytes were isolated and analyzed for a population of cd3 + cells ( pan t cells ) by flow cytometry . briefly , the splenocytes were isolated from collected mice spleens . after the red blood cells were removed , the remaining cells were blocked with an fcγ iii / ii receptor and directly stained with a fitc conjugated anti - mouse cd3 ( 17a2 ) monoclonal antibody ( bd pharmingen , san diego calif .) for 20 minutes at room temperature . the stained cells were then fixed in 1 % of formalin solution , and then analyzed by facscaliber using the cell quest software v3 . 3 ( becton dickinson immunocytometry systems , san jose , calif .). the cd3 positive population was expressed as a percentage of all gated lymphocytes . in order to evaluate t cell infiltrating into post cisplatin kidneys as a potential mechanism of action , immunohistochemical staining for t cell was performed on formalin - fixed kidney tissue . briefly , after deparaffinization and rehydration , kidney sections were immersed in 3 % hydrogen peroxide methanol for 5 minutes to block endogenous peroxidase . for antigen retrieval , slides were pressure - cooked in antigen - decloaker solution ( biocare medical , walnut creek , calif .) for 3 minutes . after treatments with normal goat serum ( 1 : 100 ) and two drops of avidin d ( 100 mg / ml pbs ), a polyclonal rabbit anti human / mouse cd3 antibody was added at a 1 : 200 dilution ( calbiochem ®, san diego , calif .) for overnight at 4 ° c ., and followed by a incubation with a biotinylated goat anti rabbit igg for 35 minutes and with streptavidin peroxidase ( biogenex , san ramon , calif .) for 45 minutes . finally the kidney sections were exposed with romulin aec chromogen ( biocare medical , walnut creek , calif .) to visualize the immuno - complex and counterstained with hematoxylin . all cisplatin kidney sections were examined by a pathologist and a nephrologist in a blinded fashion , and cd3 positive cells were counted in at least 10 cortico - medulary fields . renal myeloperoxidase ( mpo ) activity was measured as described by laight et al . ( 18 ) in the nu / nu mice and wild type mice at 72 hr after receiving cisplatin to semi - quantify neutrophils and macrophages infiltration . briefly , kidney tissue was homogenized in a solution containing 0 . 5 % ( wt / vol ) hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide dissolved in 50 mm potassium phosphate buffer ( ph 6 . 0 ) and centrifuged for 30 min at 20 , 000 g at 4 ° c . samples were incubated in a water bath at 60 ° c . for 2 hr and then centrifuged at 4 , 000 g for 12 min . the collected supernatant ( 40 μl ) in each sample was incubated with 160 μl of a reaction solution containing 1 . 6 mm tetramethylbenzidine and 3 mm h 2 o 2 diluted in 80 mm phosphate buffer ( ph 5 . 4 ) in a 96 - well microplate . the rate of change in absorbance at 630 nm over 5 min was measured spectrophotometrically . mpo activity was expressed as absorbance changed per minute per 100 mg of wet tissue . in order to examine pro - inflammatory molecules generated by cisplatin , protein levels of il - 1β , ifn - γ , tnf - α and kc was measured in the mice kidney by using bio - rad bio - plex ™ multiple cytokines array technique ( bio - rad laboratories inc ., hercules , calif .) described elsewhere in depth ( 19 ) with a simplified small template containing only above four cytokine / chemokines . briefly , snap frozen kidney tissues were homogenized in a kit - attached cell - lysis buffer , and the homogenates were centrifuged at 12 , 000 rpm for 15 min at 4 ° c . total protein concentration in each supernatant was determined by using a bio - rad protein assay i ( it , and was adjusted to 500 μg / ml with the cell lysis buffer . each sample was first incubated with a mixture of all types of micro - beads for 90 min at room temperature ( rt ) followed by an incubation with biotinylated detection antibodies for 30 min and then with a strepavidin - coupled phycoerythrin for 10 min ( rt ). finally , the samples were subjected to a flow cytometric system . all acquired data was analyzed using bio - plex manager ™ 3 . 0 software ( bio - rad ) and corrected by total protein concentration ( pg / mg protein ). data are expressed as mean ± standard error of mean ( sem ) and are compared by unpaired , two - tailed student t tests for single comparison or by anova post hoc test for multiple comparison . kaplan - meier analysis was used for mice survival analyses . statistical significance of difference was defined when the p - value was less than 0 . 05 . t cell deficient ( nu / nu ) mice and their c57bl6 wild type littermate mice were received a single i . p . injection of cisplatin at the dose of 40 mg / kg . by 72 hr after injection , 6 / 14 of the wild type mice were dead ( 58 % survival ). meanwhile , 0 / 12 of nu / nu mice died , i . e ., all of them were alive 72 hrs after cisplatin , ( 100 % of survival ; fig1 ). cisplatin administration led to the development of acute renal failure with a rise in serum creatinine from 0 . 7 mg / dl ( base line ) to 3 . 6 mg / dl by 72 hr post injection in the wild type mice . in contrast , the nu / nu mice received cisplatin had significant attenuation in serum creatinine elevation at 24 hr ( 1 . 05 ± 0 . 11 vs . 0 . 60 ± 0 . 05 , p & lt ; 0 . 02 ), 48 hr ( 2 . 09 ± 0 . 49 vs . 0 . 56 ± 0 . 05 , p & lt ; 0 . 05 ) and at 72 hr ( 3 . 61 ± 0 . 32 vs . 0 . 58 ± 0 . 06 , p & lt ; 0 . 0001 ) ( fig2 ) when compared with wild type mice . t cell deficiency protects mice from renal tubular injury induced by cisplatin at 72 hr after cisplatin administration , the wild type mice developed extensive renal tubular injury . however , the nu / nu mice had significant less tubular injury . ( injury scores : 1 . 44 ± 0 . 15 vs . 0 . 22 ± 0 . 08 , p & lt ; 0 . 0001 . fig3 ) to determine if t cell deficiency in nu / nu mice was indeed the protective factor in cisplatin - induced renal injuries , we transferred 3 × 10 6 of purified splenic t cells ( purity : greater than 90 %) from normal wild type mice into each of five nu / nu mice . the success of t cells reconstitution was confirmed by facs analysis with cd3 staining . the mean population of t cells in wild type mice spleen was 7 . 7 % of total splenocytes . meanwhile , nu / nu mice had minimal ( 0 . 4 %) splenic t cells . after a transfer , the splenic t cells in nu / nu mice were reconstituted to 2 . 4 % ( fig4 ). t cell transfers led to a significant enhancement of renal dysfunction in nu / nu mice . there was a significant rise in serum creatinine in the nu / nu mice transferred with t cells when compared to the nu / nu mice alone ( without transfer ) at 72 hr after cisplatin administration . ( 0 . 58 ± 0 . 06 vs . 1 . 23 ± 0 . 11 , p & lt ; 0 . 04 . fig5 ). the nu / nu mice with t cells transfer developed significant renal tubular injury ( fig6 ), confirmed by a semi - quantitative scoring on tubular injuries in a blinded fashion ( fig7 ). also , when compared to nu / nu mice alone , the nu / nu mice with t cells transfer had a worse survival ( 80 % vs . 100 %, figure not shown ). to investigate if t cells track into post cisplatin kidney at early time , three wild type mice in each of five groups were treated with a single dose of cisplatin and were sacrificed at 1 hr , 6 hr , 12 hr and 24 hr after cisplatin injection . kidney tissues were stained with anti - cd3 antibody , a pan t cell surface marker , by immunohistochemistry . a markedly increased cd3 positive cells were detected in the mice kidney as early as at 1 hr post cisplatin , this increase of t cells reached a peak at 12 hr , and then declined by 24 hr . ( fig8 *, p & lt ; 0 . 004 ; **, p & lt ; 0 . 0002 ) t cell deficiency attenuates increased renal myeloperoxidase activity late after cisplatin in order to assess renal phagocyte infiltration after cisplatin treatment , mpo activity in post cisplatin kidneys was measured in nuinu mice and wild type mice treated either with cisplatin or with saline as negative controls . compared to their individual saline controls , both wild type and nu / nu mice had significant increase in renal mpo activities at 72 hr after receiving cisplatin . however , this increase was significantly blunted in the nu / nu mice when compared with the wild type mice . ( fig9 ) both cd4 deficient mice and cd8 deficient mice were protected from cisplatin induced mortality and renal dysfunction to dissect the individual roles of the cd4 and cd8 t cell subsets on the outcome of cisplatin induced renal injury , we evaluated the effects of cisplatin on acute renal failure in the mice that were deficient in either cd4 or cd8 t cell . these deficient mice as well as their littermates received a single dose ( 40 mg / kg , i . p .) of cisplatin and were followed up to 72 hr . by 72 hr after cisplatin treatment , 7 / 12 wild type mice died , meanwhile only 1 / 6 cd8 deficient mice died , and 0 / 6 cd4 deficient mice died . ( fig1 ). wild type mice developed a significant rise in serum creatinine , while both cd4 deficient mice and cd8 deficient mice showed much milder renal dysfunction at 24 hr post cisplatin treatment . ( scr , mg / dl : wt vs . cd4 −/− vs . cd8 −/−, 1 . 74 ± 0 . 25 vs . 0 . 50 ± 0 . 07 vs . 0 . 67 ± 0 . 08 , p & lt ; 0 . 001 or & lt ; 0 . 004 , figure not shown ) to determine potential soluble mediators of t cell in cisplatin induced nephrotoxicity , we measured protein levels of il - β , kc , ifn - γ and tnf - α in the mouse kidney at 24 hr and 72 hr after cisplatin injection . compared to the saline controls , cisplatin - treated wild type mice had increased levels of renal il - 1β , kc and tnf - α ( all as pg / mg protein ) at 72 hr after the injection ( il - 1β : 27 . 91 ± 1 . 62 vs . 53 . 43 ± 2 . 61 , p = 0 . 0005 ; kc : 16 . 87 ± 0 . 38 vs . 338 . 30 ± 27 . 04 , p = 0 . 0004 ; tnf - α : 495 . 21 ± 44 . 05 vs . 707 . 40 ± 66 . 28 , p & lt ; 0 . 02 ). however , compared to the wild type mice , the nu / nu mice treated with cisplatin had a reduced expression of these pro - inflammatory molecules in the kidney . there was no increase in ifn - γ protein levels both in the wild type and the nu / nu mice at any time point after cisplatin administration . ( fig1 ) nephrotoxicity is a major limitation for administering adequate doses of the metal chemotherapeutic agent cisplatin . most studies support a role for apoptosis / necrosis and reactive oxygen species in the pathogenesis of cisplatin - induced renal injury ( 3 ; 8 ). recently , an inflammatory basis for cisplatin toxicity has been demonstrated with a role for icam - 1 , tnf - α and other pro - inflammatory molecules ( 10 ; 11 ; 20 ). the above data demonstrate for the first time that t cells directly mediate the pathogenesis of cisplatin - induced acute nephrotoxicity . the marked functional and structural protection seen in the t cell deficient nu / nu mice corresponded with a survival advantage . in order to confirm that t cell deficiency in nu / nu mice is directly related to the protective effect , t cell adoptive transfers were performed on some nu / nu mice , which significantly restored both structural and functional injury to cisplatin . t cells infiltrated very early into wild type mouse kidneys within hours after cisplatin treatment , but these t cells were not present after 24 hrs , demonstrating a potential role for early t cells trafficking in this toxic process . both cd4 and cd8 t cells appear to play an important role in cisplatin toxicity given the improved survival and renal protection seen in cd4 or cd8 individual knock out mice . infiltration of neutrophils and macrophages into kidney represented by renal mpo activities late after cisplatin was significantly attenuated by t cell deficiency , indicating a potential effector mechanism of t lymphocyte . proinflammatory molecules were also measured in the kidney in this study to explore other potential effector mechanisms . after cisplatin treatment , the protein levels of tnf - α , kc and il - 1β were increased in the wild type mouse kidneys , and these increases were blunted in the nu / nu mice kidneys . the marked degree of protection from renal functional decline and structural injury in the t cell deficient nu / nu mouse strain was unexpected . given that the t cell deficient nu / nu mice could have other abnormalities besides t cell deficiency leading to resistance to cisplatin toxicity , we then studied the effects of adoptive transfer of wild type t cells into nu / nu mice on cisplatin toxicity . we found significant worsening in kidney function and tubular injury in t cell transferred nu / nu mice compared to the nu / nu mice alone . approximately 9 % of t cells were found in the transferred nu / nu mice spleens , compared to 21 % in wild type . thus , even low numbers of t cells are sufficient to mediate cisplatin nephrotoxicity ( 14 ). we then began to explore the potential mechanisms by which t cells could mediate cisplatin - induced nephrotoxicity . t cell trafficking into a target organ is an important basis for t cell - mediated injury in many diseases such as transplant rejection ( 22 ). using a polyclonal antibody specific for detecting pan t cells in mouse tissue , we found a significant increase in t cell infiltration into post cisplatin mouse kidney within hours of cisplatin administration , that decreased by 24 and 72 hrs . this early trafficking could underlie the strong effects of t cells in this nephrotoxic model . however , there are examples in other inflammatory diseases such as in experimental asthma where one can dissociate t cell trafficking into involved tissue even when there is likely a t cell - mediated functional effect ( 23 ). we found that cd4 deficiency conferred a marked renal function and mortality protection from cisplatin . this may be mediated through the production of deleterious th1 polarized cytokines from cd4 cells ( 24 ). we also unexpectedly found a significant protection afforded by cd8 deficiency , though this was not as protective as cd4 deficiency . thus , both cd4 and cd8 t cells appear to mediate cisplatin induced nephrotoxicity . interestingly , in a murine model of adriamycin induced nephirotoxicity , cd4 t cells , which are traditionally considered as a regulator , have been shown to improve outcome while cd8 t cells , a scavenger , promoted renal injury . ( 25 ; 26 ) even though early recruitment of t cells was observed , their small numbers suggested that other potent effector mechanisms were in play . we therefore measured infiltrating phagocytes ( neutrophils and macrophages ) using myeloperoxidase ( mpo ) activity assay . kidney mpo levels were increased in both wt and nu / nu mice after cisplatin , however , this increase of mpo activities in post cisplatin kidney was significantly reduced in nu / nu mice . thus , t cell mediated phagocyte infiltration is a potential mode of action , and is consistent with recent publications on the mechanisms of t cells in ischemic tissue injury ( 17 ; 27 ). given that recent data has demonstrated a significant role for tnf - α in cisplatin nephrotoxicity , we measured other cytokine / chemokines protein besides tnf - α in both cisplatin treated nu / nu mice and wild type mice kidneys as potential mediators of the t cell &# 39 ; s role in cisplatin nephrotoxicity . we found an increase in tnf - α , il - 1β and kc at the time of the rise in serum creatinine and tubular injury in wild type mice . however , these increases were blunted in the nu / nu mice . thus , these molecules may be potential effectors of the t cell mediated cisplatin toxicity . alternatively , these could be associated with the decreased injury rather than cause and effect . an improved understanding of the pathophysiology of cisplatin nephrotoxicity should lead to improved preventive and therapeutic strategies . peroxisome proliferator - activated receptor - alpha ( ppar alpha ) ligands can be used also to prevent cisplatin nephrotoxicity ( 28 ). this compound has been shown to have profound inhibitory effect on t cell function by impaired production of tnf - α ( 29 ). 1 . schrier r w : cancer therapy and renal injury . j . clin . invest 110 : 743 - 745 , 2002 2 . ries f , klastersky j : nephrotoxicity induced by cancer chemotherapy with special emphasis on cisplatin toxicity . am . j . kidney dis 8 : 368 - 379 , 1986 3 . matsushima h , yonemura k , ohishi k , hishida a : the role of oxygen free radicals in cisplatin - induced acute renal failure in rats . j . lab clin . med 131 : 518 - 526 , 1998 4 . kaushal g p , kaushal v , hong x , shah s v : role and regulation of activation of caspases in cisplatin - induced injury to renal tubular epithelial cells . kidney int 60 : 1726 - 1736 , 2001 5 . leibbrandt m e , wolfgang g h , metz a l , ozobia a a , haskins j r : critical subcellular targets of cisplatin and related platinum analogs in rat renal proximal tubule cells . kidney int 48 : 761 - 770 , 1995 6 . megyesi j , safirstein r l , price p m : induction of p21waf1 / cip1 / sdi1 in kidney tubule cells affects the course of cisplatin - induced acute renal failure . j . clin . invest 101 : 777 - 782 , 1998 7 . sugiyama s , hayakawa m , kato t , hanaki y , shimizu k , ozawa t : adverse effects of anti - tumor drug , cisplatin , on rat kidney mitochondria : disturbances in glutathione peroxidase activity . biochem . biophys . res . commun 159 : 1121 - 1127 , 1989 8 . lieberthal w , triaca v , levine j : mechanisms of death induced by cisplatin in proximal tubular epithelial cells : apoptosis vs . necrosis . am . j . physiol 270 : f700 - f708 , 1996 9 . okuda m , masaki k , fukatsu s , hashimoto y , inui k : role of apoptosis in cisplatin - induced toxicity in the renal epithelial cell line llc - pk1 . implication of the functions of apical membranes . biochem . pharmacol 59 : 195 - 201 , 2000 10 . ramesh g , reeves w b : tnf - alpha mediates chemokine and cytokine expression and renal injury in cisplatin nephrotoxicity . j . clin . invest 110 : 835 - 842 , 2002 11 . ramesh g , reeves w b : tnfr2 - mediated apoptosis and necrosis in cisplatin - induced acute renal failure . am . j . physiol renal physiol 285 : f610 - f618 , 2003 12 . ramesh g , reeves w b : salicylate reduces cisplatin nephrotoxicity by inhibition of tumor necrosis factor - alpha . kidney int 65 : 490 - 499 , 2004 13 . kim y k , choi t r , kwon c h , kim j h , woo j s , jung j s : beneficial effect of pentoxifylline on cisplatin - induced acute renal failure in rabbits . ren fail 25 : 909 - 922 , 2003 14 . bume m j , daniels f , el ghandour a , mauiyyedi s , colvin r b , o &# 39 ; 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