Assessment of In Vivo Kidney Cell Death: Glomerular Injury

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Abstract

The glomerulus functions as the filtration unit of the kidney. The mesangial, endothelial, and podocyte cells of the glomerulus exhibit the three clinically most important cell types, which are involved in diverse pathologic processes. Cell death has hardly been investigated in these cells but may be of critical importance to the pathogenesis of nephrotic syndrome, nephritic syndrome, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), mesangial proliferation, and thrombonic microangiopathy (which involves dysfunction and death of glomerular endothelial cells). The complexity of the glomerulus is frequently affected in autoimmune disorders, which may elicit cell death in mesangial cells and glomerular endothelia. Artificial antisera are used to induce anti-mesangial cell serum-induced mesangiolysis and selective endothelial cell injury, respectively. Genetic variations result in loss of function of podocytes and nephrotic syndrome, which may encompass similar cell death mechanisms as the ones that are observed in the model of secondary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). The following protocols describe our current arsenal to target glomerular cells in vivo.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProgrammed Necrosis
EditorsAdrian T. Ting
Place of PublicationBerlin
Pages145-151
Number of pages7
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume1857
ISSN1064-3745

External IDs

PubMed 30136238
Scopus 85052406449
ORCID /0000-0003-2739-345X/work/146643579
ORCID /0000-0001-6287-9725/work/146644982
ORCID /0000-0002-9728-1413/work/146646215

Keywords

Keywords

  • Animals, Cell Death, Disease Models, Animal, Endothelium, Vascular/physiopathology, Glomerular Mesangium/physiopathology, Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental/physiopathology, Kidney Glomerulus/pathology, Male, Mice