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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Vol 12, Issue 3 443-448, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press

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Effect of glucose and heparin on mesangial alpha 1(IV)COLL and MMP- 2/TIMP-2 mRNA expression

C Caenazzo, S Garbisa, M Onisto, M Zampieri, B Baggio and G Gambaro
Institute of Histology and Embriology, Medical School, Padova, Italy.

Mesangial cells are responsible for the synthesis of mesangial matrix as well as its degradation, which is mediated by a number of proteolytic activities, including metalloproteinases (MMPs). Imbalanced matrix protein metabolism may be responsible for mesangial expansion and glomerulosclerosis in diabetic nephropathy. Heparin prevents this complication. In human and murine mesangial cell cultures, RT-PCR was able to detect mRNA expression for a number of molecules involved in the mesangial extracellular matrix turnover: type IV collagen [alpha 1(IV)COLL], MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-9 and MMP-10, and the tissue inhibitors TIMP-1 and TIMP-2. The expression of mRNA for alpha 1(IV)COLL and MMP-2/TIMP-2 balance was studied in human cells in the presence of high glucose and heparin. mRNAs for all the studied molecules were expressed at different levels. Interestingly, a shift in the balance of alpha 1(IV)COLL, MMP-2 and TIMP-2 was observed in high glucose, which was partially reversed by heparin supplementation. The new equilibrium was mostly due to the down-regulation of type IV collagen expression, rather than further reduction of potential proteolysis. Our data, while extending the list of potential mediators of mesangial matrix catabolism, highlight a molecular mechanism by which the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy may be sustained, and at the same time suggest that heparin may have the potential to correct this abnormality.
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