ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HUMAN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH FERRITIN-CONJUGATED ANTIBODY : LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES IN GLOMERULAR STRUCTURES OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS

1. Kidney biopsies from 4 cases of severe acute glomerulonephritis were obtained 11 to 25 days after the onset of clinical manifestations of the disease. These tissues were treated with ferritin-conjugated antibodies to 7S γ-globulin, β1C, and Type 12 streptococcal products. Adjacent pieces of the...

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Main Authors: Andres, Giuseppe A., Accinni, Lidia, Hsu, Konrad C., Zabriskie, John B., Seegal, Beatrice C.
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Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1966
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2138143/
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spelling pubmed-21381432008-04-17 ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HUMAN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH FERRITIN-CONJUGATED ANTIBODY : LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES IN GLOMERULAR STRUCTURES OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS Andres, Giuseppe A. Accinni, Lidia Hsu, Konrad C. Zabriskie, John B. Seegal, Beatrice C. Article 1. Kidney biopsies from 4 cases of severe acute glomerulonephritis were obtained 11 to 25 days after the onset of clinical manifestations of the disease. These tissues were treated with ferritin-conjugated antibodies to 7S γ-globulin, β1C, and Type 12 streptococcal products. Adjacent pieces of the biopsied material were treated with control ferritin-labeled antisera or with ferritin alone. As further controls, normal renal tissue and renal tissue from patients with other kidney diseases were treated with the same antisera. The 3 antisera to 7S γ-globulin, β1C and Type 12 streptococcus were specifically bound in electron-opaque foreign material in the following renal areas: (a) the lumen of glomerular capillaries; (b) medullary arteriolar walls (2 cases); (c) pinocytic vacuoles and absorption droplets of endothelial or mesangial cells; (d) canals between proliferating mesangial or endothelial cells which connect the capillary lumen with the deep mesangial region or with the endothelial side of the basement membrane; (e) basement membrane proper; (f) subendothelial and certain subepithelial deposits; and (g) Bowman's space. 2. None of the 3 ferritin-conjugated antisera listed above were bound to the nuclei of glomerular cells or to portions of the cytoplasm other than those specified. 3. Ferritin-conjugated antisera to pneumococcus Type II and vaccinia virus and ferritin alone were not bound to any structures in the glomerular tissue. 4. None of the ferritin-conjugated antisera bound to normal renal tissue or to kidney tissue from other renal disease. 5. The data obtained are compatible with the following working hypothesis: Antigen-antibody aggregates of Type 12 streptococcal products, γ-globulin, and complement are present in the circulating blood of patients with severe acute glomerulonephritis. Large amounts of the complexes are caught in the filtering system of the glomeruli. The inflammatory reactions seen in the glomerular structures result from the presence of the immune complexes and of the polymorphonuclear leukocytes which conjointly may be responsible for the disease. The Rockefeller University Press 1966-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2138143/ /pubmed/5324224 Text en Copyright © 1966 by The Rockefeller University Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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author Andres, Giuseppe A.
Accinni, Lidia
Hsu, Konrad C.
Zabriskie, John B.
Seegal, Beatrice C.
spellingShingle Andres, Giuseppe A.
Accinni, Lidia
Hsu, Konrad C.
Zabriskie, John B.
Seegal, Beatrice C.
ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HUMAN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH FERRITIN-CONJUGATED ANTIBODY : LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES IN GLOMERULAR STRUCTURES OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
author_facet Andres, Giuseppe A.
Accinni, Lidia
Hsu, Konrad C.
Zabriskie, John B.
Seegal, Beatrice C.
author_sort Andres, Giuseppe A.
title ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HUMAN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH FERRITIN-CONJUGATED ANTIBODY : LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES IN GLOMERULAR STRUCTURES OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
title_short ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HUMAN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH FERRITIN-CONJUGATED ANTIBODY : LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES IN GLOMERULAR STRUCTURES OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
title_full ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HUMAN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH FERRITIN-CONJUGATED ANTIBODY : LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES IN GLOMERULAR STRUCTURES OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
title_fullStr ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HUMAN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH FERRITIN-CONJUGATED ANTIBODY : LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES IN GLOMERULAR STRUCTURES OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
title_full_unstemmed ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HUMAN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH FERRITIN-CONJUGATED ANTIBODY : LOCALIZATION OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES IN GLOMERULAR STRUCTURES OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
title_sort electron microscopic studies of human glomerulonephritis with ferritin-conjugated antibody : localization of antigen-antibody complexes in glomerular structures of patients with acute glomerulonephritis
description 1. Kidney biopsies from 4 cases of severe acute glomerulonephritis were obtained 11 to 25 days after the onset of clinical manifestations of the disease. These tissues were treated with ferritin-conjugated antibodies to 7S γ-globulin, β1C, and Type 12 streptococcal products. Adjacent pieces of the biopsied material were treated with control ferritin-labeled antisera or with ferritin alone. As further controls, normal renal tissue and renal tissue from patients with other kidney diseases were treated with the same antisera. The 3 antisera to 7S γ-globulin, β1C and Type 12 streptococcus were specifically bound in electron-opaque foreign material in the following renal areas: (a) the lumen of glomerular capillaries; (b) medullary arteriolar walls (2 cases); (c) pinocytic vacuoles and absorption droplets of endothelial or mesangial cells; (d) canals between proliferating mesangial or endothelial cells which connect the capillary lumen with the deep mesangial region or with the endothelial side of the basement membrane; (e) basement membrane proper; (f) subendothelial and certain subepithelial deposits; and (g) Bowman's space. 2. None of the 3 ferritin-conjugated antisera listed above were bound to the nuclei of glomerular cells or to portions of the cytoplasm other than those specified. 3. Ferritin-conjugated antisera to pneumococcus Type II and vaccinia virus and ferritin alone were not bound to any structures in the glomerular tissue. 4. None of the ferritin-conjugated antisera bound to normal renal tissue or to kidney tissue from other renal disease. 5. The data obtained are compatible with the following working hypothesis: Antigen-antibody aggregates of Type 12 streptococcal products, γ-globulin, and complement are present in the circulating blood of patients with severe acute glomerulonephritis. Large amounts of the complexes are caught in the filtering system of the glomeruli. The inflammatory reactions seen in the glomerular structures result from the presence of the immune complexes and of the polymorphonuclear leukocytes which conjointly may be responsible for the disease.
publisher The Rockefeller University Press
publishDate 1966
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2138143/
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