Abstract | BACKGROUND: Mutations in the gene coding for the podocyte slit-pore membrane protein, nephrin, are responsible for the Finnish-type congenital nephrotic syndrome. The present study sought to examine whether nephrin expression may also be altered in experimental diabetes, and how such changes related to the development of proteinuria. In addition, the study also sought to examine nephrin expression in animals treated with different anti-proteinuric therapies. METHODS: RESULTS: When compared with control animals, nephrin expression was reduced in the late proteinuric phase (45% reduction vs controls, P<0.01) but not in the early, pre-proteinuric phase of experimental diabetic nephropathy. While ACE inhibition and aminoguanidine both reduced proteinuria, only the former attenuated the diabetes-associated reduction in nephrin expression. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggests that reduction in nephrin may be a determinant of glomerular hyperpermeability in diabetic nephropathy. Attenuation of these changes with ACE inhibition suggest that this mechanism may contribute to the anti-proteinuric effects of this, but not all classes of drug which reduce urinary protein in diabetic nephropathy.
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Authors | Darren J Kelly, Petri Aaltonen, Alison J Cox, Jon R Rumble, Robyn Langham, Sianna Panagiotopoulos, George Jerums, Harry Holthöfer, Richard E Gilbert |
Journal | Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association
(Nephrol Dial Transplant)
Vol. 17
Issue 7
Pg. 1327-32
(Jul 2002)
ISSN: 0931-0509 [Print] England |
PMID | 12105259
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
- DNA Primers
- Guanidines
- Membrane Proteins
- Proteins
- RNA, Messenger
- nephrin
- pimagedine
- Perindopril
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Topics |
- Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
(therapeutic use)
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
(genetics)
- Diabetic Nephropathies
(genetics)
- Guanidines
(therapeutic use)
- In Situ Hybridization
- Male
- Membrane Proteins
- Mutation
- Perindopril
(therapeutic use)
- Proteins
(metabolism)
- Proteinuria
(prevention & control)
- RNA, Messenger
(genetics)
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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