ISSN:
1432-0428
Keywords:
Key words Diabetic nephropathy
;
diabetic glomerulopathy
;
arteriolar hyalinosis
;
juxtaglomerular arterioles
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extracellular matrix
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microalbuminuria
;
stereology.
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Summary Hyalinization of juxtaglomerular arterioles is prominent in advanced diabetic nephropathy and may have important functional consequences. We studied the early stages of diabetic renal disease using kidney biopsy material from insulin-dependent diabetic patients, 8 with normal albumin excretion rate ( 〈 15 μg/min) and 16 with microalbuminuria (15–200 μg/min). Ten living non-diabetic kidney donors served as a control group. Median duration of diabetes was 9.5 years (range 5–31) in patients with normoalbuminuria, and 12 years (7–22) in patients with microalbuminuria (p = 0.27). The tissue was sectioned systematically, 1-μm thick sections for light microscopy at 10-μm intervals, and thin sections for electron microscopy taken at 60-μm intervals. The arterioles were identified as afferent or efferent, and total profiles were photographed (magnification 7500 × ), providing a systematic independent sample for measurements using standard stereological methods. Patients with microalbuminuria had significantly increased arteriole parameters compared with the control group: for afferent and efferent arterioles the volume fraction of matrix/media, means and (coefficient of variation, CV), was 0.47 (0.16) vs 0.33 (0.19) (p = 0.0009), and 0.62 (0.14) vs 0.45 (0.23) (p = 0.0004) and matrix-T , expressing amount of matrix per unit arteriolar surface, 2.38 (0.38) μm vs 1.44 (0.30) μm (p = 0.004), and 1.62 (0.28) μm vs 1.03 (0.34) (p = 0.0009). Patients with normoalbuminuria showed no significant differences from the control group, and had lower values than microalbuminuric patients for all parameters except the afferent matrix-T . In the normoalbuminuric group a correlation was found between parameters for afferent arterioles and those for glomerular structure. In conclusion there is arteriolar accumulation of extracellular material in the early phase of diabetic nephropathy, concomitant with early glomerulopathy. [Diabetologia (1995) 38: 1320–1327]
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00401765
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