Pathomorphological sequence of nephron loss in diabetic nephropathy - PubMed
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. 2021 Nov 1;321(5):F600-F616.
doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00669.2020. Epub 2021 Sep 20.
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Pathomorphological sequence of nephron loss in diabetic nephropathy
Jana Löwen et al. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2021.
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[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2022 Mar 1;322(3):F308. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00669.2020_COR. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2022. PMID: 35166611 No abstract available.
Abstract
Following our previous reports on mesangial sclerosis and vascular proliferation in diabetic nephropathy (DN) (Kriz W, Löwen J, Federico G, van den Born J, Gröne E, Gröne HJ. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 312: F1101-F1111, 2017; Löwen J, Gröne E, Gröne HJ, Kriz W. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 317: F399-F410, 2019), we now describe the advanced stages of DN terminating in glomerular obsolescence and tubulointerstitial fibrosis based on a total of 918 biopsies. The structural aberrations emerged from two defects: 1) increased synthesis of glomerular basement membrane (GBM) components by podocytes and endothelial cells leading to an accumulation of GBM material in the mesangium and 2) a defect of glomerular vessels consisting of increased leakiness and an increased propensity to proliferate. Both defects may lead to glomerular degeneration. The progressing compaction of accumulated worn-out GBM material together with the retraction of podocytes out of the tuft and the collapse and hyalinosis of capillaries results in a shrunken tuft that fuses with Bowman's capsule (BC) to glomerular sclerosis. The most frequent pathway to glomerular decay starts with local tuft expansions that result in contacts of structurally intact podocytes to the parietal epithelium initiating the formation of tuft adhesions, which include the penetration of glomerular capillaries into BC. Exudation of plasma from such capillaries into the space between the parietal epithelium and its basement membrane causes the formation of insudative fluid accumulations within BC spreading around the glomerular circumference and, via the glomerulotubular junction, onto the tubule. Degeneration of the corresponding tubule develops secondarily to the glomerular damage, either due to cessation of filtration in cases of global sclerosis or due to encroachment of the insudative spaces. The degenerating tubules induce the proliferation of myofibroblasts resulting in interstitial fibrosis.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Based on analysis of 918 human biopsies, essential derangement in diabetic nephropathy consists of accumulation of worn-out glomerular basement membrane in the mesangium that may advance to global sclerosis. The most frequent pathway to nephron dropout starts with the penetration of glomerular capillaries into Bowman's capsule (BC), delivering an exudate into BC that spreads around the entire glomerular circumference and via the glomerulotubular junction onto the tubule, resulting in glomerular sclerosis and chronic tubulointerstitial damage.
Keywords: encroachment of glomerular damage onto the tubule; increased leakiness of glomerular vessels; mesangial matrix accumulation; progression to glomerular decay; tubulointerstitial fibrosis.
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