title: [Clinical investigation of anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies in patients with glomerulonephritis with crescent formation].
abstract: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) have been found in patients with systemic vasculitis and crescentic glomerulonephritis. Recently two types of ANCA were identified, one is anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies (Anti-MPO Ab) stained perinuclear pattern of alcohol-fixed neutrophils by immunofluorescence test, and the other is autoantibodies with no reactivity with myeloperoxidase stained diffuse cytoplasmic pattern (C-ANCA). We investigated 59 patients with various glomerulonephritis with or without crescent to detect anti-MPO Ab and C-ANCA by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The results were as follows: 1) Anti-MPO Ab were detected only in patients with various glomerulonephritis with crescent. 2) Titers of anti-MPO Ab were high related to percentage of crescent in some cases of glomerulonephritis. 3) Titers of anti-MPO Ab were elevated at stage of cellular and fibro-cellular crescent. 4) C-ANCA were detected only in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis. These data suggested that anti-MPO Ab may play important roles in crescent formation and may be a marker of crescent formation in various glomerulonephritis.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arimura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nohmi
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagasawa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000276:immunology; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000276:immunology; D009195:Peroxidase / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies; D009195:Peroxidase