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KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 60, Issue 6, Pages 2330-2336Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.00073.x
Keywords
type 1 diabetes; diabetic nephropathy; type IV collagen; connective tissue growth factor; mesangial expansion
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- NCRR NIH HHS [M01RR00425] Funding Source: Medline
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Background. In patients with type 1 diabetes, some consider microalbuminuria to be a predictor of diabetic nephropathy while others believe it is an early feature of diabetic nephropathy. Methods. Levels of mRNAs that are of pathogenetic relevance in diabetic nephropathy were compared in glomeruli isolated from microalbuminuric and overtly proteinuric subjects and in control normoalbuminuric diabetic subjects and living renal transplant donors. Results: In subjects with microalbuminuria and overt proteinuria, glomerular mRNAs were virtually identical and approximately twofold higher for connective tissue growth factor (CTGF; P < 0.01) and collagen alpha2(IV) (P < 0.03) compared to living renal donors and normoalbuminuric patients. Glomerular glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) levels were not significantly different among the groups (P = 0.4). Weak but statistically significant correlations were noted between CTGF mRNA and albuminuria (assessed by rank), fractional mesangial surface area, and a composite renal biopsy index. Glomerular CTGF mRNA correlated inversely with creatinine clearance. Glomerular collagen alpha2(IV) mRNA levels correlated,with albuminuria (by rank) and less strongly with fractional mesangial area. Conclusion. To our knowledge, these data provide the first biochemical evidence demonstrating that the glomeruli of microalbuminuric patients and those with avert proteinuria do not differ significantly. The data support the concept that microalbuminuria is not predictive of diabetic nephropathy, but rather is an earlier point in the spectrum of diabetic nephropathy.
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