Transplacental action of 4-dimethylaminoazobenzene and diethylaminoazobenzene on organ cultivation of mouse embryonic kidney tissue

1972 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-319
Author(s):  
N. I. Golub'
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Transplacental Action

Freeze-Etch Crystal-Like Structures in Membranous Glomerulosclerosis

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 394-395
Author(s):  
Burton B. Silver
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Sodium Hypochlorite ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Donor Kidney ◽  
Unknown Substance ◽  
Etched Surface ◽  
Standard Fixation ◽  
Diseased Kidney

Tissue from a non-functional kidney affected with chronic membranous glomerulosclerosis was removed at time of trnasplantation. Recipient kidney tissue and donor kidney tissue were simultaneously fixed for electron microscopy. Primary fixation was in phosphate buffered gluteraldehyde followed by infiltration in 20 and then 40% glycerol. The tissues were frozen in liquid Freon and finally in liquid nitrogen. Fracturing and replication of the etched surface was carried out in a Denton freeze-etch device. The etched surface was coated with platinum followed by carbon. These replicas were cleaned in a 50% solution of sodium hypochlorite and mounted on 400 mesh copper grids. They were examined in an Siemens Elmiskop IA. The pictures suggested that the diseased kidney had heavy deposits of an unknown substance which might account for its inoperative state at the time of surgery. Such deposits were not as apparent in light microscopy or in the standard fixation methods used for EM. This might have been due to some extraction process which removed such granular material in the dehydration steps.

A Comparison Between Sterological Point Counting and Digitizing Tablets

1985 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 666-667
Author(s):  
John M. Basgen ◽  
Eileen N. Ellis ◽  
S. Michael Mauer ◽  
Michael W. Steffes
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Volume Density ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Normal Kidney ◽  
Point Counting ◽  
Normal Kidney Tissue ◽  
Biopsy Specimens ◽  
Mitochondrial Volume ◽  
Kidney Lesions

To determine the efficiency of methods of quantitation of the volume density of components within kidney biopsies, techniques involving a semi-automatic digitizing tablet and stereological point counting were compared.Volume density (Vv) is a parameter reflecting the volume of a component to the volume that contains the component, e.g., the fraction of cell volume that is made up of mitochondrial volume. The units of Vv are μm3 /μm3.Kidney biopsies from 15 patients were used. Five were donor biopsies performed at the time of kidney transplantation (patients 1-5, TABLE 1) and were considered normal kidney tissue. The remaining biopsies were obtained from diabetic patients with a spectrum of diabetic kidney lesions. The biopsy specimens were fixed and embedded according to routine electron microscogy protocols. Three glomeruli from each patient were selected randomly for electron microscopy. An average of 12 unbiased and systematic micrographs were obtained from each glomerulus and printed at a final magnification of x18,000.

Electron microscopic study of the membrane glycoproteins in the rat kidney after cisplatin treatment

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 912-913
Author(s):  
S.K. Aggarwal
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Rat Kidney ◽  
Light And Electron Microscopy ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Membrane Glycoproteins ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Interstrand Cross Links ◽  
Cross Links

The proposed primary mechanism of action of the anticancer drug cisplatin (Cis-DDP) is through its interaction with DNA, mostly through DNA intrastrand cross-links or DNA interstrand cross-links. DNA repair mechanisms can circumvent this arrest thus permitting replication and transcription to proceed. Various membrane transport enzymes have also been demonstrated to be effected by cisplatin. Glycoprotein alkaline phosphatase was looked at in the proximal tubule cells before and after cisplatin both in vivo and in vitro for its inactivation or its removal from the membrane using light and electron microscopy.Outbred male Swiss Webster (Crl: (WI) BR) rats weighing 150-250g were given ip injections of cisplatin (7mg/kg). Animals were killed on day 3 and day 5. Thick slices (20-50.um) of kidney tissue from treated and untreated animals were fixed in 1% buffered glutaraldehyde and 1% formaldehyde (0.05 M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.3) for 30 min at 4°C. Alkaline phosphatase activity and carbohydrates were demonstrated according to methods described earlier.

Localization of cell-surface and basement-membrane heparan-sulfate proteoglycans using the malaria circumsporozoite protein

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 294-295
Author(s):  
U. Frevert ◽  
S. Sinnis ◽  
C. Cerami ◽  
V. Nussenzweig
Keyword(s):  
Heparan Sulfate ◽  
Protein A ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Plasmodium Species ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Basement Membranes ◽  
Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans ◽  
Infected Mosquito ◽  
Complement Components ◽  
Region Ii

Malaria sporozoites, which invade hepatocytes within minutes after transmission by an infected mosquito, are covered with the circumsporozoite (CS) protein, which in all Plasmodium species contains the conserved region II-plus. This region is also found as a cell-adhesive motif in a variety of host proteins like thrombospondin, properdin and the terminal complement components.The CS protein with its region II-plus specifically binds to heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG) on the basolateral surface of hepatocytes in the space of Disse (FIG. 1), to certain basolateral cell membranes and basement membranes of the kidney (FIG. 2) as well as to heparin in the granules of connective tissue mast cells. The distribution of the HSPG receptors for the CS protein was examined by incubation of Lowicryl K4M or LR White sections of liver and kidney tissue with the recombinant CS ligand, whose binding sites were detected with a monoclonal anti-CS antibody and protein A gold.

SOME EFFECTS OF PERCHLORATE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF 131-IODIDE

1965 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Schönbaum ◽  
E. A. Sellers ◽  
M.J. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Urinary Excretion ◽  
Renal Excretion ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Intraperitoneal Dose ◽  
Blood Radioactivity ◽  
Radioactivity Levels

ABSTRACT The distribution of an intraperitoneal dose of 131-iodide was studied in rats receiving perchlorate. The accumulation of radioactivity in the stomach, which occurred soon after injection in controls, was inhibited by perchlorate. Concurrent with this, radioactivity in blood was higher in perchlorate treated rats than in controls. After perchlorate, more radioactivity in kidney tissue and an elevated urinary excretion of the tracer was noted. After 24 hours, plasma radioactivity was lower in perchlorate treated rats than in controls. Increased renal excretion of 131I after perchlorate is, at least in part, due to higher blood radioactivity levels, probably because of decreased iodide space due to the action of perchlorate.

EFFECT OF THYROCALCITONIN ON ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE AND PYROPHOSPHATASE IN RAT TIBIA, KIDNEY AND INTESTINE

1972 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 676-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cipora Streifler ◽  
Arie Orenstein ◽  
Arieh Harell
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Plasma Calcium ◽  
Inorganic Pyrophosphatase ◽  
Rat Tibia ◽  
Rat Bone

ABSTRACT The influence of thyrocalcitonin (TCT) on the enzymes alkaline phosphatase and inorganic pyrophosphatase in rat bone, kidney and intestine was studied. The rats were injected with TCT every hour for 4 hours. They were divided into groups and were sacrificed 1 h after the first, second, third and fourth injection respectively. The plasma calcium was found to be reduced. Enzyme studies showed that: a) in tibia metaphysis homogenates alkaline phosphatase increased in response to TCT, to 198, 175, 154 and 183 per cent of the non-injected rats after 1, 2, 3, and 4 injections, respectively; inorganic pyrophosphatase was elevated to 356, 209, 221, 425 per cent after the same TCT injections. b) In kidney homogenates alkaline phosphatase was reduced to 75, 53, 79, 68 per cent of the non-injected rats after 1, 2, 3 and four doses, respectively; inorganic pyrophosphatase was reduced to 78, 56, 77 and 71 per cent after the same injections of TCT. c) In the jejunum, alkaline phosphatase was found to be 88.5, 71, 91 and 115 per cent of the untreated rats after 1, 2, 3 and 4 injections, respectively; pyrophosphatase in this tissue was found to be 105, 102, 102 and 113 per cent of the normal under the above conditions. The results indicate: 1. TCT causes increases in alkaline phosphatase and inorganic pyrophosphatase activities in bone. The increase of pyrophosphatase is significantly more marked than the increase of alkaline phosphatase; 2. in kidney tissue, the action of TCT on these two enzymes is slower and their activities are equally reduced; 3. in the jejunum no significant effect of TCT on the activity of these two enzymes was observed.

Impact of Sodium Selenite on Antioxidative Metabolism in Kidney Tissue of Albino Rat Under Ammonia Stress

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 489-490
Author(s):  
M. SIVA SANKAR M. SIVA SANKAR ◽  
◽  
K. SUJATHA K. SUJATHA ◽  
P. NEERAJA P. NEERAJA
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Selenite ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Albino Rat ◽  
Antioxidative Metabolism ◽  
Ammonia Stress

Correlation Between Serological Makers and Immunofluorescence Deposits i n Kidney Tissue of Patients with Lupus Nephritis

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haider S Al-Hadad ◽  
Aqeel Abbas Matrood ◽  
Maha Abdalrasool Almukhtar ◽  
Haider Jabur Kehiosh ◽  
Riyadh Muhi Al-Saegh
Keyword(s):  
Lupus Nephritis ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Kidney Biopsy ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Standard Procedure ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
P Value ◽  
American College Of Rheumatology ◽  
Immune Deposits ◽  
Number Of Patients

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease. Few biomarkers for SLE have been validated and widely accepted for the laboratory follow-up of inflammatory activity. In SLE patients, with lupus nephritis (LN), complement activation leads to fluctuation of serum C3 and C4 that are frequently used as clinicalm biomarker of disease activity in SLE. Patients and Methods: In this study the number of patients were 37, seven patients were excluded for incomplete data collection, 28 were females ,2 were males. The duration of the study is two years from 2015 to 2017. Patients were considered to have SLE and LN according to American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria, and International Society of Nephrology/ Renal Pathology Society (ISN/RPS). All patients were evaluated withm clinical presentation, laboratory investigations. Our patients underwent kidney biopsy according to standard procedure by Kerstin Amann, and their tissue specimens were studied in the laboratory with light microscope (LM) and immunofluorescence microscope reagents. The relationship between the serological markers and immunofluorescence deposits in kidney biopsy of all patients were studied using the statistical analysis of Pearson correlation and single table student's T test. A P value 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The granular pattern of IF deposits was present in all LN patients, and in more than two third of patients these IF deposits presented in glomerular, tubular, and mesangium sites. While less than one third of patients had IF deposits in the mesangium only. There was no statistically significant correlation between serum ANA, anti-dsDNA, and IF deposits of different types. There was significant correlation between serum C3 and C4 hypocomplementemia and IgG immune deposits in kidney biopsy, and there was significant relationship between serum C3 hypocomplementemia and full house immunofluorescence (FHIF) deposits inm kidney biopsy.Conclusions:Immunofluorescence deposits is mainly granular pattern in LN patients. There was no significant association between serum ANA, anti-dsDNA, and immune deposits in kidney tissue. Immunofluorescence deposits of IgG type correlates significantly with serum C3 and C4 hypocomplemetemia, and these immune deposits in association with low complement levels correlates with LN flare. There was significant correlation between C3 hypocomplementemia and FHIF.

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