Decrease of mesangial matrix after immunosuppressive therapy in children with reversible membranoproliterative glomerulonephritis type I

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 217-225

  Inaba, S ^a   Tanizawa, T ^b   Takahashi, T ^a   Ishihara, S ^a   Arai, M ^a   Sakai, Y ^a   Kurose, K K ^a   Matsukura, H ^a   Okada, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color image analyzer; Extracellular matrix component; Heparin; Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis; Mesangial matrix

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; FIBRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MORPHOMETRICS; STAINING; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PREDNISOLONE; TIME FACTORS; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WARFARIN;

EID: 0029964341     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Barbiano di Belgiojoso G, Tarantino A, Colasantt G, Bazzi G, Cuerra L, Durante A 1977 The prognostic value of some clinical and histological parameters in membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN). Report of 112 cases. Nephron 19: 250-258
2. Bohle A, Gartner HV, Fischbach H, Bock KD, Edel HH, Frotscher U, Kluthe R, Monninghoff W, Scheler F 1974 The morphological and clinical features of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in adults. Virchows Arch Histol 363: 213-224
3. Cameron JS, Ogg CS, White RHR, Glasgow EF 1973 The clinical features and prognosis of patients with normocomplementemic mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis. Clin Nephrol 1: 8-13
4. Cameron JS, Turner DR, Heaton J, Williams DG, Ogg CS, Chantler C, Haycock GB, Hicks J 1983 Idiopathic mesangio-capillary glomerulonephritis. Comparison of types I and H in children and adults and long-term prognosis. Am J Med 74: 175-192
5. Coffey AK, Karnovsky MJ 1985 Heparin inhibits mesangial cell proliferation in Habu-venom-induced glomerular injury. Am J Pathol 120: 248-255
6. Davies M, Thomas GJ, Martin J, Lovett DH 1988 The purification and characterization of a glomerular basement membrane-degrading neutral proteinase from rat mesangial cells. Biochem J 251: 419-425
7. Davies M, Martin J, Thomas GJ, Lovett DH 1992 Proteinases and glomerular matrix turnover. Kidney Int 41: 671-678
8. Floege J, Eng E, Young BA, Causer WO, Johnson RJ 1993 Heparin suppresses mesangial cell proliferation and matrix expansion in experimental mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int 43, 369-380
9. Funabiki K, Horikoshi S, Tomino Y, Nagai Y, Koide H 1990 Immunohistochemical analysis of extracellular components in glomerular sclerosis of patients with glomerulonephritis. Clin Nephrol 34: 239-246
10. Habib R, Kleinknecht C, Gubler MC, Levy M 1973 Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in children. Report of 105 cases. Clin Nephrol 1: 194-214
11. Hara M, Mase D, Inaba S, Higuchi A, Tanizawa T, Yamanaka N, Sugisaki Y, Sado Y, Okada T 1986 Immunohistochemical local ization of glomerular basement membrane antigens in various renal diseases. Virchows Arch A 408: 403-419
12. Ishikawa Y, Wada T, Sakaguchi H 1980 The possibility of three types of cells in cultured glomeruli in vitro Am J Pathol 100: 779-790
13. Jacobs C, Brunner FP, Chantler C, Donckerewolcke RA, Gurland HJ, Hathway RA, Selwood NH, Wing AJ 1977 Combined report on regular dialysis and transplantation in Europe, 7, in Dialysis Transplantation Nephrology 14. In: Robinson B (ed). Hawkins J, Vereerstraeten P, Tunbridge Wells. Pitman Press, pp 3-69
14. Kincaid-Smith P 1973 The natural history and treatment of mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis. In: Kincaid-Smith P, Mathew TH, Becker EL (eds). Glomerulonephritis. New York, Wiley, pp 591-609
15. Lovett DH, Sterzel KB, Kushgarian M. Ryan JL 1983 Neutral proteinase activity produced in vitro by cells of the glomerular mesangium. Kidney Int 23: 342-349
16. Lovett DH, Johnson RJ, Marti P, Martin J, Davies M, Couser WG 1992 Structural characterization of the mesangial cell type IV collagenase and enhanced expression in a model of immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis. Am J Pathol 141: 85-98
17. Magil AB, Price JDE, Bower G, Rance CP, Huber J, Chase WH 1979 Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type I: Comparison of natural history in children and adults. Clin Nephrol 11: 239-244
18. Mandalenakis N, Mendoza N, Pirani CL, Pollak VE 1971 Lobular glomerulonephritis and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. Medicine 50: 319-355
19. Martin J, Davies M, Thomas GJ, Lovett DH 1989 Human mesangial cells secrete a GBM-degrading neutral proteinase and specific inhibitor. Kidney Int 36: 790-801
20. Oomura A, Nakamura T, Arakawa M, Ooshima A, Isemura M 1989 Alterations in the extracellular matrix components in human glomerular diseases. Virchows Arch A 415: 151-159
21. Schmitt H, Bohle A, Reineke T, Eichberger DM, Vogl W 1990 Long-term prognosis of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type I: Significance of clinical and morphological parameters: An investigation of 220 cases Nephron 55: 242-250
22. Strife CF, McAdams AJ, West CD 1982 Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis characterized by focal, segmental proliferative lesions. Clin Nephrol 18: 9-16
23. Striker LM, Killen PD, Chi E, Striker GE 1984 The composition of glomerulonephritis. I. Studies in focal sclerosis, crescentic glomerulonephritis, and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. Lab Invest 51: 181-191
24. Suzuki J, Yoshikawa N, Nakamura H 1990 A quantitative analysis of the mesangium in children with IgA nephropathy: Sequential study. J Pathol 161: 57-64
25. Swainson CP, Robson JS, Thomson D, MacDonald MK 1983 Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis: A long-term study of 40 cases. J Pathol 141: 449-468
26. Tateno S, Kobayashi Y 1987 Quantitative analysis of mesangial areas in serial biopsied patients with IgA nephropathy. Nephron 46: 28-33
27. Watson AR, Poucell S, Thorner P. Arbus GS, Rance CP, Baumal R 1984 Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type I in children: Correlation of clinical features with pathologic subtypes. Am J Kid Dis 4: 141-146
28. West CD 1973 Membranoproliferative hypocomplementemic glomerulonephritis. Nephron 11: 134-146