Search results for "Kidney Tubule"

Human renal tubular epithelial cells as target cells for antibodies to proteinase 3 (c-ANCA)

1997

Face-selective adhesion of calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals to renal epithelial cells

1996

The interaction between the most common urinary crystal, calcium oxalate dihydrate (COD) and the surface of monkey renal epithelial cells of the BSC-1 line was investigated. The [100] face of exogenous COD crystals bound selectively and rapidly to the kidney cell surface. Cellular processes extended preferentially over the [100] face initially, and then progressively covered the crystal so that by 24 hours some crystals were observed beneath the plasma membrane. When nucleated from solution onto the surface of the cell monolayer, COD crystals oriented preferentially so that their [100] faces were in direct contact with the cell surface. In contrast, when siliconized glass was used as a subs…

Interaction of antibodies to proteinase 3 (classic anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody) with human renal tubular epithelial cells: impact on signali…

2002

Abstract Among the anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic Abs (ANCA), those targeting proteinase 3 (PR3) have a high sensitivity and specificity for Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG). A pathogenetic role for these autoantibodies has been proposed due to their capacity of activating neutrophils in vitro. Recently, PR3 was also detected in human renal tubular epithelial cells (TEC). In the present study, the effect of murine monoclonal anti-PR3 Abs (anti-PR3) and purified c-ANCA targeting PR3 from WG serum on isolated human renal tubular cell signaling and inflammatory mediator release was characterized. Priming of TEC with TNF-α resulted in surface expression of PR3, as quantified in immunofluorescence stu…

CSF-1 signals directly to renal tubular epithelial cells to mediate repair in mice

2009

金沢大学医薬保健研究域医学系

Genome-wide Association Studies Identify Genetic Loci Associated with Albuminuria in Diabetes

2016

Elevated concentrations of albumin in the urine, albuminuria, are a hallmark of diabetic kidney disease and are associated with an increased risk for end-stage renal disease and cardiovascular events. To gain insight into the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying albuminuria, we conducted meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies and independent replication in up to 5,825 individuals of European ancestry with diabetes and up to 46,061 without diabetes, followed by functional studies. Known associations of variants in CUBN, encoding cubilin, with the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) were confirmed in the overall sample (P = 2.4 × 10−10). Gene-by-diabetes interactions were…

Per-protocol repeat kidney biopsy portends relapse and long-term outcome in incident cases of proliferative lupus nephritis

2019

Abstract Objectives In patients with LN, clinical and histological responses to treatment have been shown to be discordant. We investigated whether per-protocol repeat kidney biopsies are predictive of LN relapses and long-term renal function impairment. Methods Forty-two patients with incident biopsy-proven active proliferative (class III/IV±V) LN from the database of the UCLouvain were included in this retrospective study. Per-protocol repeat biopsies were performed after a median [interquartile range (IQR)] time of 24.3 (21.3–26.2) months. The National Institutes of Health activity index (AI) and chronicity index (CI) scores were assessed in all biopsies. Results Despite a moderate corre…

Enhanced glomerular Toll-like receptor 4 expression and signaling in patients with type 2 diabetic nephropathy and microalbuminuria

2014

Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), a component of the innate immune system, is recognized to promote tubulointerstitial inflammation in overt diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, there is no information on immune activation in resident renal cells at an early stage of human DN. In order to investigate this, we studied TLR4 gene and protein expression and TLR4 downward signaling in kidney biopsies of 12 patients with type 2 diabetes and microalbuminuria, and compared them with 11 patients with overt DN, 10 with minimal change disease (MCD), and control kidneys from 13 patients undergoing surgery for a small renal mass. Both in microalbuminuria and in overt DN, TLR4 mRNA and protein were overexpress…

Pigment variant of neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis

1995

A 6-year-old girl had progressive ataxia, and visual disturbances resulting in blindness. She died in her sleep at age 22 years. She shared with her sister and paternal relatives bilateral pes cavus deformities and impaired deep-tendon reflexes which suggested Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Her sister, who also had both polyneuropathy and a progressive central nervous system (CNS) disease, did not have pigmentary retinopathy. At autopsy, the patient was found to have neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis (NCL) marked by intraneuronal accumulation of autofluorescent granular lipopigments in ballooned perikarya and conspicuous extraneuronal pigmentation of subcortical grey matter, but without axonal s…

D-Glucose and fluid reabsorption in proximal surface tubule of the rat kidney

1972

Hexose reabsorption in the kidney was investigated by microperfusion of proximal cortical rat nephrons with Ringer's solution containingD-glucose (2.5, 5.0 and 18.0 mM/l), 3-O-methylD-glucose (4.5 mM/l) orD-fructose (18.0 mM/l) at perfusion rates of 20 or 40×10−6 ml/min. Inulin was used as a reference for fluid reabsorption. 1. The fraction of fluid reabsorbed was independent of the glucose concentration but it decreased when the perfusion rate increased from 20–40×10−6 ml/min. 2. At 18.0 mM/l the % glucose reabsorption was equal to the % fluid reabsorption. This equality was independent of the perfusion rate, (20 or 40×10−6 ml/min), indicating 1:1 coupling with net isotonic fluid reabsorpt…

Time course of development of transtubular sodium concentration differences in proximal surface tubules of the rat kidney. Micropuncture experiments …

1969

Int the proximal and distal surface tubules isotonic Na reabsorption (Φ Naout) is impaired by adrenalectomy. In the present experiments the time course of development of transtubular Na concentration differences (Na)P−(Na)TF was studied in the proximal convolution. 1. Na concentration was measured in free flow mannitol diuresis. Endproximal (Na)P−(Na)TF averaged 23.0±0.5 meq/l after 8.5±0.6 sec (controls) and 15.2±1.7 meq/l after 13.6±0.5 sec (adrenalectomized rats). 2. In modified stopped flow experiments tubular fluid, aspirated at the beginning of the proximal convolution in mannitol diuresis, was injected between two oil columnes and reaspirated after 28–36 sec of contact time. (Na)P−(N…