title: Metabolic and ultrastructural aspects of experimental diabetic glomerulopathy.
abstract: The effects of alloxan induced diabetes and insulin treatment on rat kidney glomerular ion transport and the oxidative phosphorylation were investigated in order to correlate metabolic and ultrastructural alterations. In alloxan diabetic rats an early decrease of Na+K+ ATPase activity in isolated glomeruli preparations and the subsequent uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation were observed. These metabolic alterations are associated with structural changes such as the thickening of the basement membrane and the disorganization of both endothelial and mesangial cells. Insulin treatment induces a slow and only partial recovery of metabolic changes. Ultrastructural features of the kidney cortex were almost completely normalized after only two months of insulin treatment.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001485:Basement Membrane / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D005920:Glomerular Mesangium / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006019:Glycolysis; D007328:Insulin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008297:Male; D010085:Oxidative Phosphorylation / Q000187:drug effects; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase; D010100:Oxygen