Journal article
Mesangial immune complex glomerulonephritis due to complement factor D deficiency
Kidney international, Vol.71(11), pp.1142-1147
06/01/2007
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ki.5002235
PMID: 17410102
Abstract
Complement factor D is a serine protease essential for the activation of the alternative pathway and is expressed in the kidney, adipocytes, and macrophages. Factor D is found at relatively high levels in glomeruli suggesting that this component of the complement cascade could influence renal pathophysiology. In this study, we utilize mice with a targeted deletion of the activating complement factor D gene and compare these results to mice with targeted deletion of the inhibitory complement factor H gene. Eight-month-old mice with a deleted factor D gene spontaneously develop albuminuria and have reduced creatinine clearance due to mesangial immune complex glomerulonephritis. These mesangial deposits contain C3 and IgM. In contrast to the mesangial location of the immune deposits in the factor D-deficient mice, age-matched factor H-deficient mice develop immune deposits along the glomerular capillary wall. Our observations suggest that complement factor D or alternative pathway activation is needed to prevent spontaneous accumulation of C3 and IgM deposits within the mesangium. Our studies show that the complement factor D gene knockout mice are a novel model of spontaneous mesangial immune complex glomerulonephritis.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Mesangial immune complex glomerulonephritis due to complement factor D deficiency
- Creators
- M.A Abrera-Abeleda - Department of Otolaryngology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USAY Xu - Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USAM.C Pickering - Molecular Genetics and Rheumatology Section, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UKR.J.H Smith - Department of Otolaryngology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USAS Sethi - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Kidney international, Vol.71(11), pp.1142-1147
- DOI
- 10.1038/sj.ki.5002235
- PMID
- 17410102
- NLM abbreviation
- Kidney Int
- ISSN
- 0085-2538
- eISSN
- 1523-1755
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2007
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Anatomy and Cell Biology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Otolaryngology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984006314502771
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