Effect of paricalcitol and enalapril on renal inflammation/oxidative stress in atherosclerosis
Kazim Husain, Edu Suarez, Angel Isidro, Wilfredo Hernandez, Leon Ferder
Kazim Husain, Edu Suarez, Angel Isidro, Leon Ferder, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ponce, PR 00732, United States
Wilfredo Hernandez, Department of Biochemistry, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ponce, PR 00732, United States
Author contributions: Husain K performed the majority of the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the paper; Suarez E performed the animal treatments, data recording and analysis; Isidro A performed physiological experiments; Hernandez W performed biochemical data and statistical analysis; Ferder L designed and coordinated the research.
Supported by A research grant from Abbott Pharmaceutical, United States.
Institutional review board statement: The animal protocol was designed to minimize pain and discomfort to the animals. The animals were acclimatized to laboratory conditions (25 °C, 12 h/12 h light/dark, 50% humidity, ad libitum access to food and water) for one week.
Institutional animal care and use committee statement: All procedures involving animals were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Ponce School of Medicine (Protocol #LF-07).
Conflict-of-interest statement: There is no conflict of interest associated with any of the senior author or other coauthors contributed their efforts in this manuscript.
Data sharing statement: This is a non-clinical study hence the technical appendix, statistical code, and data sets are not available.
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Correspondence to: Kazim Husain, PhD, DABT, Professor, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, PO Box 7004, Ponce, PR 00732, United States.
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Received: January 24, 2015
Peer-review started: January 28, 2015
First decision: March 6, 2015
Revised: May 26, 2015
Accepted: June 9, 2015
Article in press: June 11, 2015
Published online: August 26, 2015
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