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Pathogenesis of glomerular injury in the fawn-hooded rat: early glomerular capillary hypertension predicts glomerular sclerosis. 1993

J L Simons, and A P Provoost, and S Anderson, and J L Troy, and H G Rennke, and D J Sandstrom, and B M Brenner
Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Center for The Study of Kidney Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Fawn-hooded rats spontaneously develop focal and segmental glomerular sclerosis, systemic hypertension, and proteinuria at a young age. Micropuncture and morphological studies were performed in two inbred strains of fawn-hooded rats, FHH and FHL, with different susceptibilities to develop chronic renal failure. FHH rats have higher values for systolic blood pressure and proteinuria and more rapid development of focal and segmental glomerular sclerosis and subsequent chronic renal failure as compared with genetically closely related FHL rats. FHH and FHL strains and a Wistar control strain, WAG, were matched for age and were studied at 16 wk. FHH, FHL, and WAG-old (WAG-O) strains were matched for weight, and the last group was studied at 22 wk. WAG were also matched for weight to a young group of FHH rats (FHH-Y), and these were studied at 8 wk. In comparison with WAG and WAG-O rats, FHH and FHH-Y rats exhibited an increased in mean glomerular capillary hydraulic pressure (WAG, 52 +/- 1 mm Hg; WAG-O, 47 +/- 2 mm Hg; FHH, 60 +/- 2 mm Hg; FHH-Y, 65 +/- 1 mm Hg), whereas values in FHL animals were intermediate (56 +/- 2 mm Hg). No significant differences in glomerular volume were found among groups. Moderate focal and segmental glomerular sclerosis developed in FHH and FHH-Y rats, with values for older FHH rats being significantly greater than those for WAG, WAG-O, and FHL animals. Thus, the genetically determined sensitivity to develop proteinuria, focal and segmental glomerular sclerosis, and chronic renal failure in fawn-hooded rats correlated with early evidence of glomerular capillary hypertension.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006973 Hypertension Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more. Blood Pressure, High,Blood Pressures, High,High Blood Pressure,High Blood Pressures
D007678 Kidney Glomerulus A cluster of convoluted capillaries beginning at each nephric tubule in the kidney and held together by connective tissue. Glomerulus, Kidney
D008297 Male Males
D011922 Rats, Mutant Strains Rats bearing mutant genes which are phenotypically expressed in the animals. Mutant Strains Rat,Mutant Strains Rats,Rat, Mutant Strains,Strains Rat, Mutant,Strains Rats, Mutant
D012079 Renal Circulation The circulation of the BLOOD through the vessels of the KIDNEY. Kidney Circulation,Renal Blood Flow,Circulation, Kidney,Circulation, Renal,Blood Flow, Renal,Flow, Renal Blood
D002196 Capillaries The minute vessels that connect arterioles and venules. Capillary Beds,Sinusoidal Beds,Sinusoids,Bed, Sinusoidal,Beds, Sinusoidal,Capillary,Capillary Bed,Sinusoid,Sinusoidal Bed
D005923 Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental A clinicopathological syndrome or diagnostic term for a type of glomerular injury that has multiple causes, primary or secondary. Clinical features include PROTEINURIA, reduced GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE, and EDEMA. Kidney biopsy initially indicates focal segmental glomerular consolidation (hyalinosis) or scarring which can progress to globally sclerotic glomeruli leading to eventual KIDNEY FAILURE. Glomerulonephritis, Focal Sclerosing,Hyalinosis, Segmental Glomerular,Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis,Glomerulosclerosis, Focal,Hyalinosis, Segmental,Segmental Glomerular Hyalinosis,Focal Glomerulosclerosis,Focal Sclerosing Glomerulonephritides,Focal Sclerosing Glomerulonephritis,Glomerular Hyalinosis, Segmental,Glomerulonephritides, Focal Sclerosing,Sclerosing Glomerulonephritides, Focal,Sclerosing Glomerulonephritis, Focal,Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, Focal,Segmental Hyalinosis
D006439 Hemodynamics The movement and the forces involved in the movement of the blood through the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM. Hemodynamic
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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