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Daily Moderate Exercise Is Beneficial and Social Stress Is Detrimental to Disease Pathology in Murine Lupus Nephritis

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Physiology, April 2017
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Title
Daily Moderate Exercise Is Beneficial and Social Stress Is Detrimental to Disease Pathology in Murine Lupus Nephritis
Published in
Frontiers in Physiology, April 2017
DOI 10.3389/fphys.2017.00236
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Saba I. Aqel, Jeffrey M. Hampton, Michael Bruss, Kendra T. Jones, Giancarlo R. Valiente, Lai-Chu Wu, Matthew C. Young, William L. Willis, Stacy Ardoin, Sudha Agarwal, Brad Bolon, Nicole Powell, John Sheridan, Naomi Schlesinger, Wael N. Jarjour, Nicholas A. Young

Abstract

Daily moderate exercise (DME) and stress management are underemphasized in the care of patients with lupus nephritis (LN) due to a poor comprehensive understanding of their potential roles in controlling the inflammatory response. To investigate these effects on murine LN, disease progression was monitored with either DME or social disruption stress (SDR) induction in NZM2410/J mice, which spontaneously develop severe, early-onset LN. SDR of previously established social hierarchies was performed daily for 6 days and DME consisted of treadmill walking (8.5 m/min for 45 min/day). SDR significantly enhanced kidney disease when compared to age-matched, randomly selected control counterparts, as measured by histopathological analysis of H&E staining and immunohistochemistry for complement component 3 (C3) and IgG complex deposition. Conversely, while 88% of non-exercised mice displayed significant renal damage by 43 weeks of age, this was reduced to 45% with exercise. DME also reduced histopathology in kidney tissue and significantly decreased deposits of C3 and IgG complexes. Further examination of renal infiltrates revealed a macrophage-mediated inflammatory response that was significantly induced with SDR and suppressed with DME, which also correlated with expression of inflammatory mediators. Specifically, SDR induced IL-6, TNF-α, IL-1β, and MCP-1, while DME suppressed IL-6, TNF-α, IL-10, CXCL1, and anti-dsDNA autoantibodies. These data demonstrate that psychological stressors and DME have significant, but opposing effects on the chronic inflammation associated with LN; thus identifying and characterizing stress reduction and a daily regimen of physical activity as potential adjunct therapies to complement pharmacological intervention in the management of autoimmune disorders, including LN.

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Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 16%
Researcher 3 7%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Student > Master 3 7%
Other 10 22%
Unknown 8 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 7%
Psychology 3 7%
Other 7 16%
Unknown 12 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 126. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 September 2017.
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#280,121
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Outputs from Frontiers in Physiology
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Physiology
#8
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