Unilateral Masugi nephritis in the rat. 1981

A Z Barabas, and R Lannigan

In unilateral nephritis produced in rats by clamping one kidney, injecting heterologous Masugi antiserum prepared from homogenates of cortex, and releasing the clamp after 30 to 60 minutes, nephritis develops in the unclamped kidney. In the clamped kidney, although nephritis does not occur, the injected heterologous antibody can be demonstrated in the glomeruli with immunofluorescence techniques, and the intensity increases with time. Antirat glomerular basement membrane antisera and antirat tubular fraction 3 antisera were raised separately in rabbits. Rats with one kidney pedicle clamped were injected with antirat raised separately in rabbits. Rats with one kidney pedicle clamped were injected with antirat glomerular basement membrane antiserum alone, antirat tubular fraction 3 alone, or a mixture of both. The clamp was released after 1 hour. Frozen sections of the kidney were stained at intervals for the presence of rabbit IgG and rat IgG. When antirat glomerular basement membrane was injected alone, faint linear fluorescence was noted at 24 hours in the clamped kidney, and this did not increase over 4 weeks. Antirat tubular fraction 3 antiserum injected alone showed fine granular deposits around the capillary walls at 24 hours, and the intensity of fluorescence increased with time. When a mixture of antirat glomerular basement membrane and antirat tubular fraction 3 was injected, in the clamped kidney, there was initially faint linear fluorescence. By the 8th day, a granular pattern was noted superimposed on a linear background. By 32 days, the granular pattern was evident. The presence of subepithelial deposits was confirmed by electron microscopy. It is deduced that the slow reacting factor in Masugi antiserum prepared from homogenates of cortex is partly a "contaminating" antitubular antibody and that injections of Masugi antiserum may produce two superimposed types of immunologic glomerular lesions.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007105 Immune Complex Diseases Group of diseases mediated by the deposition of large soluble complexes of antigen and antibody with resultant damage to tissue. Besides SERUM SICKNESS and the ARTHUS REACTION, evidence supports a pathogenic role for immune complexes in many other IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES including GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, systemic lupus erythematosus (LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC) and POLYARTERITIS NODOSA. Hypersensitivity, Type III,Type III Hypersensitivity,Disease, Immune Complex,Diseases, Immune Complex,Hypersensitivities, Type III,Immune Complex Disease,Type III Hypersensitivities
D008853 Microscopy The use of instrumentation and techniques for visualizing material and details that cannot be seen by the unaided eye. It is usually done by enlarging images, transmitted by light or electron beams, with optical or magnetic lenses that magnify the entire image field. With scanning microscopy, images are generated by collecting output from the specimen in a point-by-point fashion, on a magnified scale, as it is scanned by a narrow beam of light or electrons, a laser, a conductive probe, or a topographical probe. Compound Microscopy,Hand-Held Microscopy,Light Microscopy,Optical Microscopy,Simple Microscopy,Hand Held Microscopy,Microscopy, Compound,Microscopy, Hand-Held,Microscopy, Light,Microscopy, Optical,Microscopy, Simple
D008854 Microscopy, Electron Microscopy using an electron beam, instead of light, to visualize the sample, thereby allowing much greater magnification. The interactions of ELECTRONS with specimens are used to provide information about the fine structure of that specimen. In TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY the reactions of the electrons that are transmitted through the specimen are imaged. In SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY an electron beam falls at a non-normal angle on the specimen and the image is derived from the reactions occurring above the plane of the specimen. Electron Microscopy
D009393 Nephritis Inflammation of any part of the KIDNEY. Nephritides
D005455 Fluorescent Antibody Technique Test for tissue antigen using either a direct method, by conjugation of antibody with fluorescent dye (FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT) or an indirect method, by formation of antigen-antibody complex which is then labeled with fluorescein-conjugated anti-immunoglobulin antibody (FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT). The tissue is then examined by fluorescence microscopy. Antinuclear Antibody Test, Fluorescent,Coon's Technique,Fluorescent Antinuclear Antibody Test,Fluorescent Protein Tracing,Immunofluorescence Technique,Coon's Technic,Fluorescent Antibody Technic,Immunofluorescence,Immunofluorescence Technic,Antibody Technic, Fluorescent,Antibody Technics, Fluorescent,Antibody Technique, Fluorescent,Antibody Techniques, Fluorescent,Coon Technic,Coon Technique,Coons Technic,Coons Technique,Fluorescent Antibody Technics,Fluorescent Antibody Techniques,Fluorescent Protein Tracings,Immunofluorescence Technics,Immunofluorescence Techniques,Protein Tracing, Fluorescent,Protein Tracings, Fluorescent,Technic, Coon's,Technic, Fluorescent Antibody,Technic, Immunofluorescence,Technics, Fluorescent Antibody,Technics, Immunofluorescence,Technique, Coon's,Technique, Fluorescent Antibody,Technique, Immunofluorescence,Techniques, Fluorescent Antibody,Techniques, Immunofluorescence,Tracing, Fluorescent Protein,Tracings, Fluorescent Protein
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D051381 Rats The common name for the genus Rattus. Rattus,Rats, Laboratory,Rats, Norway,Rattus norvegicus,Laboratory Rat,Laboratory Rats,Norway Rat,Norway Rats,Rat,Rat, Laboratory,Rat, Norway,norvegicus, Rattus

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