Intraglomerular thrombotic tendency and glomerular ADPase. Unilateral impairment of ADPase elicits a proaggregatory microenvironment in experimental glomerulonephritis
- University of Groningen (Netherlands)
It has been proposed, predominantly from ex vivo studies, that glomerular ADPase may function as an antithrombotic principle within the rat kidney. Therefore, intraglomerular platelet aggregation was studied in vivo in rats after impairment of glomerular ADPase activity using local X-irradiation (20 Gy). Biochemical assays in suspensions of glomeruli obtained from rats 24 hours after local X-irradiation (group I) demonstrated a significant reduction in ADPase activity as compared to sham treated rats (group II; p less than 0.01). Cytochemical observations at the ultrastructural level showed that this reduction in glomerular enzyme activity represents in particular ADPase activity detectable in the basement membrane. Following X-irradiation, intraglomerular platelet aggregation was quantitatively studied in two groups of rats. Both groups received X-irradiation of the left kidney (20 Gy). Twenty-four hours after X-irradiation, animals received an intravenous injection of either 0.5 ml of saline (group III; N = 6) or 0.5 ml of heterologous nephrotoxic serum (NTS; group IV; N = 6). Subsequently, 24 hours after this injection, platelet aggregation in left kidneys was compared with aggregation in contralateral non-X-irradiated kidneys. The results showed that while X-irradiation per se did not induce intraglomerular platelet aggregation as compared with the contralateral kidney (0.20 +/- 0.08% versus 0.17 +/- 0.06% platelet aggregation/glomerulus), a significant increase in platelet aggregation could be demonstrated in X-irradiated kidneys in the early phase of nephrotoxic serum nephritis as compared with the contralateral nephritic kidney. A potential effect of altered influx of inflammatory cells after X-irradiation could be excluded since no difference in H2O2 producing cells was observed between left and right kidneys.
- OSTI ID:
- 5639300
- Journal Information:
- Laboratory Investigation (A Journal of Experimental Methods and Pathology); (USA), Vol. 64:4; ISSN 0023-6837
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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