Idiopathic membranous nephropathy in identical twins

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-118

  Guella, Adnane ^a   Akhtar, Mohammed ^a   Ronco, Pierre ^a  

^a King Fahd Military Medical Complex   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

anti brush border antibodies; antipodocyte antibodies; familial membranous nephropathy; HLA antigens; Idiopathic membranous nephropathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EDEMA; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PODOCYTE;

EID: 0031031433     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-6386(97)90017-2     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. 3. Lancet 2:770-771, 1979
2. Berthoux FC, Laurent B, Le Petit JC, Genin C, Broutin F, Hassan AA, Champailler A: Immunogenetics and immunopathology of human primary membranous glomerulonephritis: HLA-A, B, DR antigens; functional activity of splenic macrophage Fc receptors and peripheral blood T-lymphocyte subpopulations. Clin Nephrol 22:15-20, 1984
3. 18 and no association to BfF1. Tissue Antigens 17:332-337, 1981
4. Short CD, Feehally J, Gokal R, Mallick NP: Familial membranous nephropathy. BMJ 289:1500, 1984
5. Sato K, Oguchi H, Hora K, Furukawa T, Furuta S, Shigematsu H, Yoshizawa S: Idiopathic membranous nephropathy in two brothers. Nephron 46:174-178, 1987
6. Meroni M, Volpi A, Usberti M, Battini G, Terelli LT, Giordano F, Sessa A: Two brothers with idiopathic membranous nephropathy and familial sensorineural deafness. Am J Kidney Dis 3:269-272, 1990
7. 3 and not related to monocyte-phagocyte system Fc receptor dysfunction in father and son. Nephron 58:320-324, 1991
8. Glassock RJ, Adler SC, Ward HJ, Cohen AH: Primary glomerular diseases, in Brenner BM, Rector FC (eds): The Kidney (ed 3). Philadelphia, PA, Saunders, 1986, pp 929-1013
9. Stenglein B, Thoenes GH, Gunther E: Genetic control of susceptibility to autologous immune complex glomerulonephritis in inbred rat strains. Clin Exp Immunol 33:88-94, 1978
10. Saito A, Pietromonaco S, Loo A K-C, Farquhar MG: Complete cloning and sequencing of rat gp 330/"megalin," a distinctive member of the low density lipoprotein receptor gene family. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91:9725-9729, 1994
11. Kerjaschki D, Farquhar MG: The pathogenetic antigen of Heymann nephritis is a membrane glycoprotein of the renal proximal tubule brush border. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 79:5557-5561, 1982
12. Kerjaschki D, Farquhar MG: Immunocytochemical localisation of the Heymann nephritis antigens (gp 330) in glomerular epithelial cells of normal Lewis rats. J Exp Med 157:667-686, 1983
13. Ronco P, Allegri L, Brianti E, Chatelet F, Van Leer EH, Verroust P: Antigenic targets in epimembranous glomerulonephritis. Appl Pathol 7:85-98, 1989
14. Papiha SS, Pareek SK, Rodger RSC, Morley AR, Wilkinson R, Roberts DF, Kerr DNS: HLA-A, B, DR and Bf allotypes in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN). Kidney Int 31:130-134, 1987
15. 3 and idiopathic membranous nephritis (IMN) association. Tissue Antigens 20:227-228, 1982
16. Dyer PA, Short CD, Clarke EA, Mallick NP: HLA antigen and gene polymorphisms and haplotypes established by family studies in membranous nephropathy. Nephrol Dial Transplant Suppl 1:42-47, 1992
17. Naito S, Kohara M, Arakawa K: Association of class II antigens of HLA with primary glomerulopathies. Nephron 45:111-114, 1987
18. 3 associated idiopathic membranous nephropathy. Kidney Int 43:S13-S19, 1993 (suppl 39)
19. Kerjaschki D, Miettinen A, Farquhar MG: Initial events in the formation of immune deposits in passive Heymann nephritis. J Exp Med 166:109-128, 1987
20. Kerjaschki D: The pathogenesis of membranous glomerulonephritis from morphology to molecules. Virchows Arch B Cell Pathol 58:253-271, 1990