PMID: 2496273Apr 1, 1989Paper

Advanced glycosylation end-products in experimental murine diabetic nephropathy: effect of islet isografting and of aminoguanidine

Laboratory Investigation; a Journal of Technical Methods and Pathology
K Nicholls, T E Mandel

Abstract

The effects of islet isografting and of aminoguanidine on the accumulation of advanced glycosylation end-products (AGE) in renal basement membranes were studied in Streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes mellitus in female BALB/c mice. The characteristic autofluorescence of glycosylated collagen was used to quantitate AGE. We studied the effect of islet isografting using 3 groups of mice, sacrificed at age 13 to 15 months: group A, untreated diabetes (STZ 250 mg/kg intravenously at age 6 to 8 weeks); group B, untreated diabetes for 7 months, then successfully grafted with cultured islet cells; and group C, age-matched normal control animals. At sacrifice, AGE were measured in digests of renal basement membranes as collagen-linked fluorescence/unit of hydroxyproline. Group A animals had significantly greater renal basement membrane glycosylation than did the other 2 groups, (group A median 88.0 arbitrary units/mumol hydroxyproline, range 30.2 to 127.5; group B median 19.4, range 5.1 to 56.8; group C median 2.9 range 0-13.5; p = .001 A versus B). To study the effect of aminoguanidine, 4 groups of animals were used: group 1, untreated diabetics (STZ 250 mg/kg intravenously at age 6 to 8 weeks); group 2, diabetics treated with aminog...Continue Reading

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