PPAR-? expression in the kidney of actively proliferating glomerulonephritis / 北京大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

Objective: To investigate peroxisome proliferator activated receptor ? (PPAR ?) expressions in patients with actively proliferating glomerulonephritis such as type Ⅳ lupus nephritis (LN) and cellular crescentic glomerulonephritis (RPGN). Methods: All patients were divided into 4 groups as follows RPGN (17 cases); LN type Ⅳ (15 cases); mild mesangial proliferative IgA nephropathy (IgAN, 7 cases) and minimal change disease (MCD, 10 cases). Clinical parameters, immunohisto chemistry stain and in situ hybridization of renal biopsy specimens were performed. Results: Clinically, proteinuria and hematouria were increased and Ccr were decreased in LN and RPGN patients, and increased ESR and decreased complement C3 were found in group LN. Active index of renal specimens were significantly higher in LN and RPGN groups than in IgAN and MCD groups. Renal specimens of MCD patients showed no positive PPAR ? staining in all sections; little immunoreactivity was detected in sections of glomerular, tubular and interstitial cells from IgAN patients. Glomerular positive staining of PPAR ? in renal sections in LN and RPGN patients[(3.3?1.8) and (2.8?1.2) cells per section of glomerulus, respectively] were significantly increased compared with that in IgAN patients [(0.7?0.5) cells per section of glomerulus]. Similarly, tubular positive staining of PPAR ? in LN and RPGN patients (27.38? 12.46, 23.36?10.55) were also elevated compared with that in IgAN and MCD patients(6.51?3.49, 1.72?0.31). The relevance assay results showed positive relationship between active index and glomerular or tubular PPAR ? immunohisto chemistry staining cell numbers (0.478, P