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Carlson EC, Chhoun JM, Grove BD, Laturnus DI, Zheng S, Epstein PN, Tan Y. Renoprotection From Diabetic Complications in OVE Transgenic Mice by Endothelial Cell Specific Overexpression of Metallothionein: A TEM Stereological Analysis. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2017; 300:560-576. [PMID: 27813325 PMCID: PMC5309165 DOI: 10.1002/ar.23511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Revised: 11/01/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
Abstract
We previously demonstrated that OVE transgenic diabetic mice are susceptible to chronic complications of diabetic nephropathy (DN) including substantial oxidative damage to the renal glomerular filtration barrier (GFB). Importantly, the damage was mitigated significantly by overexpression of the powerful antioxidant, metallothionein (MT) in podocytes. To test our hypothesis that GFB damage in OVE mice is the result of endothelial oxidative insult, a new JTMT transgenic mouse was designed in which MT overexpression was targeted specifically to endothelial cells. At 60 days of age, JTMT mice were crossed with age-matched OVE diabetic mice to produce bi-transgenic OVE-JTMT diabetic progeny that carried the endothelial targeted JTMT transgene. Renal tissues from the OVE-JTMT progeny were examined by unbiased TEM stereometry for possible GFB damage and other alterations from chronic complications of DN. In 150 day-old OVE-JTMT mice, blood glucose and HbA1c were indistinguishable from age-matched OVE mice. However, endothelial-specific MT overexpression in OVE-JTMT mice mitigated several DN complications including significantly increased non-fenestrated glomerular endothelial area, and elimination of glomerular basement membrane thickening. Significant renoprotection was also observed outside of endothelial cells, including reduced podocyte effacement, and increased podocyte and total glomerular cell densities. Moreover, when compared to OVE diabetic animals, OVE-JTMT mice showed significant mitigation of nephromegaly, glomerular hypertrophy, increased mesangial cell numbers and increased total glomerular cell numbers. These results confirm the importance of oxidative stress to glomerular damage in DN, and show the central role of endothelial cell injury to the pathogenesis of chronic complications of diabetes. Anat Rec, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Anat Rec, 300:560-576, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Edward C. Carlson
- Department of Biomedical SciencesUniversity of North DakotaGrand ForksNorth Dakota
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- Department of Biomedical SciencesUniversity of North DakotaGrand ForksNorth Dakota
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- Department of Biomedical SciencesUniversity of North DakotaGrand ForksNorth Dakota
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- Department of Biomedical SciencesUniversity of North DakotaGrand ForksNorth Dakota
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- Department of PediatricsUniversity of LouisvilleLouisvilleKentucky
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- Department of PediatricsUniversity of LouisvilleLouisvilleKentucky
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- Department of PediatricsUniversity of LouisvilleLouisvilleKentucky
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Knudsen LL. Ocular fluorophotometry in human subjects and in swine - with particular reference to long-term pharmacokinetics. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.80.s235.1.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Knudsen LL, Olsen T, Nielsen-Kudsk F. Long-term kinetic vitreous fluorophotometry in normal and diabetic subjects. Acta Ophthalmol 1992; 70:570-7. [PMID: 1471478 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1992.tb02135.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Nine normal and 24 diabetic subjects were examined by long-term vitreous and plasma fluorescein fluorophotometry and the observed concentration profiles were described by biexponential time courses. The rate constant of elimination of fluorescein from the body (K10) was significantly decreased in diabetics with background and proliferative retinopathy, presumably caused by affection of the liver and possibly representing alterations in membranes of liver cells. Increased kidney albumin excretion was observed with increasing degree of retinopathy. The apparent rate constant of fluorescein penetration into the eye (Kin) was found significantly decreased in background as well as in proliferative retinopathy; while the permeability index, calculated as areas under vitreous and plasma fluorescein curves, was significantly increased. In the normal subjects Kin was significantly higher than the rate constant of fluorescein transfer (K12) from the apparent central to the peripheral tissue compartment, whereas in the diabetics this difference was only found in the group with background retinopathy. The findings seem compatible with the concept that the breakdown of the blood-ocular barrier could be caused at least partly by affection of an active transport system for fluorescein, but thickening and compositional changes of the basement membranes in the eye might also be of importance.
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- L L Knudsen
- Department of Ophthalmology, Arhus University Hospital, Denmark
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Williamson JR, Tilton RG, Chang K, Kilo C. Basement membrane abnormalities in diabetes mellitus: relationship to clinical microangiopathy. DIABETES/METABOLISM REVIEWS 1988; 4:339-70. [PMID: 3292174 DOI: 10.1002/dmr.5610040404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- J R Williamson
- Pathology Department, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Myocardial collagen and total protein synthesis were studied in normal, diabetic, and insulin-treated diabetic rats after a single intraperitoneal injection of L-[2,3-3H]proline as a radioisotopic precursor. The incorporation of tritiated proline into myocardial protein was regarded as a measure of total protein synthesis and the incorporation into hydroxyproline as indicative of myocardial collagen synthesis. Both total protein and collagen synthesis were found to be significantly lower in diabetic rats. This was associated with decreased degradation of both total protein and collagen in diabetic rats, as suggested by prolonged turnover times. Collagen content was also found to be increased in diabetic myocardium. Early insulin therapy with normalization of blood sugars in diabetic rats returned myocardial collagen metabolism to normal. This suggests that maintenance of euglycemia in diabetic rats is necessary to prevent abnormal myocardial collagen metabolism.
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- A S Reddi
- Department of Medicine, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103
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Reddi AS, Velasco CA, Khan MY, Bloodworth JM, Camerini-Davalos RA. Kidney disease in KK mice: effect of glipizide. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1988; 246:305-12. [PMID: 3250259 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5616-5_37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- A S Reddi
- Department of Medicine, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark
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Reddi AS, Wehner H, Khan MY, Camerini-Davalos RA. Kidney disease in KK mice: structural, biochemical and functional relationships. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1988; 246:135-45. [PMID: 2854953 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5616-5_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- A S Reddi
- Department of Medicine, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark
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Reddi AS. Metabolism of glomerular basement membrane in short- and long-term streptozotocin diabetic rats. ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES DE PHYSIOLOGIE ET DE BIOCHIMIE 1986; 94:205-18. [PMID: 2434051 DOI: 10.3109/13813458609071420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The synthesis of glomerular basement membrane (GBM) total protein and collagen was assessed by two methods in vivo in normal and streptozotocin diabetic rats 4-6 weeks and 42-44 weeks after onset of hyperglycaemia, using L-[2, 3, 3H] proline as a radioactive precursor. The incorporation of tritiated proline into GBM hydroxyproline was used as a measure of collagen synthesis and that into proline as total protein synthesis. The basement membrane fractions from both short- and long-term diabetic rats attained much higher proline and hydroxyproline specific activities compared to normal GBM proline and hydroxyproline specific activities. Early insulin therapy with normalization of blood sugar levels in short-term (4-6 weeks) diabetic rats returned the abnormal increases in GBM total protein and collagen synthesis to normal. By contrast, poor glycaemic control with insulin did not prevent the increases in GBM protein synthesis. The results of the present study suggest that overall enhancement of GBM protein synthesis occurs in both short- and long-term streptozotocin diabetes. Early insulin therapy with normalization of blood sugar levels prevents this increase in GBM protein synthesis. Poor glycaemic control had no effect on abnormal GBM protein synthesis. This may be of potential significance in view of preventing chronic diabetic microvascular complications such as nephropathy.
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Reddi AS. Metabolism of glomerular basement membrane in normal, hypophysectomized, and growth-hormone-treated diabetic rats. Exp Mol Pathol 1985; 43:196-208. [PMID: 2931303 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4800(85)90040-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The in vivo synthesis of the renal glomerular basement membrane (GBM) collagen was studied in normal, hypophysectomized (hypox), diabetic, and growth-hormone (GH)-treated diabetic rats, using tritiated proline (L[2,3,3H]proline) as a radioisotopic precursor. After the injection of tritiated proline, all groups of rats were sacrificed at various time intervals and the specific activities of proline and hydroxyproline of GBM were determined, the latter being used as a measure of GBM collagen synthesis. A significant decrease in both proline and hydroxyproline specific activities were observed in GBM of hypox rats at all periods of study. Administration of GH to hypox rats returned the GBM collagen synthesis to normal. Diabetic GBM had higher proline and hydroxyproline specific activities when compared to normal rats. Treatment of diabetic rats with GH for 10 days further increased both proline and hydroxyproline specific activities when compared either to diabetic or normal rats treated with GH. The activity of glucosyltransferase, an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of the disaccharide unit of GBM collagen was found to be decreased in glomeruli of hypox rats. In contrast, the activity of N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, a glycoprotein-degrading enzyme, was found to be significantly increased in hypox rats. GH treatment restored both enzyme activities to normal. The results of the present study show that GBM collagen synthesis is decreased in hypox rats and increased in diabetic rats. GH treatment not only normalized GBM collagen synthesis in hypox rats but also caused significant increase in diabetic rats. This suggests that the renal GBM metabolism is influenced by GH, and this may be of particular significance in view of GH involvement in diabetic microvascular complications.
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Glucosyltransferase, an enzyme involved in the synthesis of the carbohydrate portion of basement membranes and collagens, and collagen content were determined in the retina of normal and streptozotocin diabetic rats. No significant difference in glucosyltransferase activity was found at 4 weeks of diabetes. However, the enzyme activity was significantly increased in diabetic rats 12 and 48 weeks following the induction of diabetes. Similarly, a significant increase in collagen content was observed in diabetic retinas after 12 weeks of diabetes. Electron microscopy showed marked thickening of the retinal capillary basement membrane in long-term diabetic (48 weeks) rats. The data suggest that enhanced collagen synthesis and deposition occurs in the retina of diabetic rats, and with duration of diabetes this may result in thickening of the capillary basement membrane. These results are compatible with previously reported increases in kidney glucosyltransferase, collagen synthesis and thickening of the capillary basement membrane in diabetic rats.
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Federspil G, Vettor R, De Palo E, Padovan D, Sicolo N, Scandellari C. Plasma kallikrein activity in human diabetes mellitus. Metabolism 1983; 32:540-2. [PMID: 6341768 DOI: 10.1016/0026-0495(83)90022-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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It has recently been observed that administration of bradykinin to diabetic patients improves peripheral glucose utilization. To verify whether there is an alteration of the kallikrein-kinin system in human diabetes, plasma kallikrein activity was measured in 47 diabetic patients and in 20 control subjects. In diabetics plasma kallikrein activity was significantly higher than in controls: 1.04 +/- 0.04 U/ml (p less than 0.001). Although they do not refute the hypothesis that there is an alteration of the kallikrein-kinin system in diabetes mellitus, these findings do not support such a hypothesis either. Increased synthesis of plasma kallikrein activity may be due to increased synthesis of carbohydrate-protein compounds in diabetes mellitus.
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Miralles JM, Corrales JJ, Garcia-Diez LC, Cabezas JA, Reglero A. N-acetyl beta-D-glucosaminidase and alpha-L-fucosidase activities in relation to glycosylated hemoglobin levels and to retinopathy in diabetes. Clin Chim Acta 1982; 121:373-8. [PMID: 7105401 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(82)90246-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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N-Acetyl beta-D-glucosaminidase and alpha-L-fucosidase were determined in human sera from 25 control subjects, in 23 diabetic patients without retinopathy and in 22 diabetic patients with retinopathy. The results show significantly higher N-acetyl beta-D-glucosaminidase activity in diabetic patients independently of the development of retinopathy and also independently of the length of diabetes. No correlation was found between either serum enzymes and serum glucose concentration and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1).
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le Pape A, Guitton JD, Muh JP. Modification of glomerular basement membrane cross-links in experimental diabetic rats. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1981; 100:1214-21. [PMID: 7271798 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(81)91953-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Heathcote JG, Grant ME. The molecular organization of basement membranes. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE RESEARCH 1981; 9:191-264. [PMID: 7040276 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-363709-3.50011-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Taylor SA, Price RG, Kang SS, Yudkin J. Modification of the glomerular basement membrane in sucrose-fed and streptozotocin-diabetic rats. Diabetologia 1980; 19:364-72. [PMID: 6448759 DOI: 10.1007/bf00280522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Rats were fed on diets containing either sucrose or starch as the carbohydrate component (55%) for eight months. Diabetes was induced in animals of both groups by injecting streptozotocin (50 mg/kg body weight). Diabetic rats failed to gain weight, had enlarged kidneys, polyuria and elevated blood glucose levels. Starch and sucrose fed rats gained weight normally and had normal blood glucose levels. Sucrose fed rats had enlarged kidneys. Regional thickening of the glomerular basement membrane was present in sucrose-fed and diabetic rats but not in starch-fed controls. Glomerular basement membrane isolated from pooled kidney cortices from rats in the different experimental groups were analysed for amino acid, disaccharide and hexosamine content. Hydroxylysine (9 to 20%), hydroxyproline (21 to 24%), disaccharide (27%) and hexosamine (26%) were increased in membranes insolated from the three experimental groups, compared with starch-fed non-diabetic controls. An increase in low molecular weight components of the glomerular basement membrane of sucrose-fed and diabetic rats was observed using electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulphate. Significantly higher (p < 0.001) glucosyltransferase activity was present in kidney supernatants prepared from sucrose-fed (1050 +/- 60 nmol/2h/kidney) compared to starch-fed rats (510 +/- 40 nmol/2h/kidney). Sucrose feeding induces changes similar to those found in diabetes and the induction of diabetes made little difference over the feeding of sucrose alone.
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Since the biochemical composition of the diabetic glomerular basement membrane is still a controversial area, a study was carried out using kidneys from seven diabetic and seven nondiabetic subjects. In diabetic membranes, the glycine, hydroxylysine, glucose, galactose, and hydroxylysine-linked disaccharide unit content was increased together with a decrease in the half-cystine and sialic acid content. These findings support the view of a biochemical alteration in the human diabetic glomerular basement membrane.
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Ireland JT. Diabetic nephropathy. Ir J Med Sci 1979; 148 Suppl 2:9-16. [PMID: 521254 DOI: 10.1007/bf02938135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Haft DE, Reddi AS. Glucosyltransferase activity in kidney fractions of normal and streptozotocin-diabetic rats. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1979; 584:1-10. [PMID: 444572 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(79)90229-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Glucosyltransferase (UDPglucose: galactosylhydroxylysine-basement membrane glucosyltransferase), an enzyme specifically involved in collagen synthesis, was measured in various kidney fractions of normal, diabetic and underfed rats, using as basis the incorporation of radioactivity into protein during incubation with UDP[U-14C]glucose and alkali-soluble fetal calf-skin collagen. Three criteria of enzyme activity were compared: A, total radioactivity of the washed protein precipitate; B, this figure minus activity incorporated in the absence of the collagen acceptor; and C, radioactivity incorporated into the mixed amino acid fraction, collected by elution with dilute NH4OH from a Dowex 50 resin column after alkaline hydrolysis of the protein. Method A was found satisfactory using whole medulla or isolated glomeruli, since the average proportions of total protein radioactivity recovered in the NH3 fraction were 0.81 and 0.87, respectively, and the deviations were small. There was a larger and variable proportion of nonspecific incorporation using whole cortex. Incubation of a control set of sample without added collagen was found to be unnecessary (Method B). Per mg protein, medulla and glomeruli had more enzyme than did whole cortex. In diabetes, activity was enhanced in the 10,000 X g supernatant fraction of cortex, as previously reported. However, the increase associated with diabetes was even more consistent in the medulla, averaging 3-fold in the 10,000 X g pellet fraction. No increase was found in isolated glomeruli in diabetes. Also, no increase was seen in the kidneys of non-diabetic rats with body weight similar to that of the diabetics.
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