Brief Scientific Presentations
Kidney International (1999) 56, S153–S155; doi:10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.07139.x
Imaging of hydroperoxides in a rat glomerulus stimulated by puromycin aminonucleoside
Kazumasa Aoyagi, Kayo Akiyama, Chie Tomida, Mitihiro Gotoh, Aki Hirayama, Katsumi Takemura, Atsushi Ueda, Sohji Nagase, Akio Koyama and Mitsuharu Narita
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki; Kamitsuga Hospital, Tochigi; and Mito Central Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan
Correspondence: Kazumasa Aoyagi, M.D., Ph.D., Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tennho-dai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan. E-mail:aoyagi-k@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
Abstract
Imaging of hydroperoxides in a rat glomerulus stimulated by puromycin aminonucleoside.
Background
To determine the locus of the increased oxidation induced by puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN), we imaged hydroperoxides in glomeruli stimulated by PAN in vivo and in vitro.
Methods
Dichlorofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) in cells makes dichlorofluorescein, a substance that fluoresces when reacted with hydroperoxides. Fluorescence was detected using a photon detection video camera connected to a microscope. Two kinds of isolated glomeruli of Wistar rats were examined. One was the glomerulus obtained from rats on the seventh day following the injection of PAN. In this case, glomeruli were incubated in a buffer containing 5 mM DCFH-DA. Another was the glomerulus collected at 30 minutes after a large amount of DCFH-DA was intravenously injected. These glomeruli were incubated with either PAN or phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) in Krebs-Henseleite bicarbonate buffer.
Results
The images from the glomeruli treated by PAN in vivo resemble pictures of a galaxy by telescope. When the glomeruli were treated by PAN in vitro, two localized points appeared in each glomerulus after 15 minutes of incubation with PAN, and after 75 minutes of incubation, the fluorescence spread throughout the glomerulus. When glomeruli were incubated with PMA, two points that gave a very strong fluorescence were observed in each glomerulus, but they did not spread throughout the glomeruli. In both experiments, glomeruli without stimulants did not fluoresce.
Conclusion
Increases in hydroperoxides were observed in the glomeruli from rats made nephrotic by exposure to PAN, and were also observed in glomeruli following 15 minutes of incubation with PAN in vitro.
Keywords:
imaging, dichlorofluorescein diacetate, glomerulus, peroxides, nephrotic renal disease
