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- The study investigates the expression of specific fibronectin isoforms (EIIIA(+)-FN and EIIIB(+)-FN) during renal interstitial fibrosis in rat models, aiming to better understand their roles as potential diagnostic markers.
- In the unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) model, both FN isoforms increased significantly over time, indicating their involvement in fibrosis, while in the uranyl nitrate (UN) model, only EIIIA(+)-FN showed a continuous increase, suggesting distinct fibrogenic responses.
- The findings imply that the presence of EIIIB(+)-FN may play a role in preventing the progression of fibrosis, highlighting its potential significance in renal damage assessment.
Article Abstract
Background/aims: Renal interstitial fibrosis (RIF) is the main cause for progressive renal failure, but its pathogenic factors are not well known. In animal models of renal fibrogenesis done thus far an increase of total fibronectin (FN) mRNA has been proved. Recent studies have pointed to a key role of the splice variant EIIIA(+)-FN and EIIIB(+)-FN for the development of organ fibrosis. However, a broader knowledge of the distribution of these different FN mRNA isoforms is still lacking. Our aim was to study the particular expression of the EIIIA(+)-FN and EIIIB(+)-FN during the process of fibrogenesis in two rat models and to evaluate the FN isoforms as diagnostic/prognostic marker for the stage of interstitial damage in rat kidneys.
Methods: Kidneys of unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) and control rats were removed in intervals of 5, 14 or 21 days after surgery. For the investigation of kidney damage due to uranyl nitrate (UN), rats obtained a single i.p. dose of 5 mg/kg body weight UN and were killed 2, 10 and 20 weeks thereafter. The quantitative RT-PCR method was used to estimate the total FN, EIIIA(+)-FN and EIIIB(+)-FN transcription rate.
Results: In the UUO model, a significant augmentation of both isoforms was obtained in the kidneys in the first 5-day interval, which was more pronounced at the 21-day interval. In the UN-treated kidneys there appeared only a continuous increase of EIIIA(+)-FN and the splice variant EIIIB(+)-FN failed to show a shift in these animals as compared to the controls.
Conclusion: Both animal models generated fibrogenic damages of the tubulointerstitium, whereas only the UUO resulted in progressive fibrosis. Absence of EIIIB(+)-FN seems to enhance the progression of fibrogenesis.
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