title: Prevention of crescentic glomerulonephritis in SCG/Kj mice by bone marrow transplantation.
abstract: Transplantation of MHC-compatible, T-cell-depleted, bone marrow cells has successfully treated autoimmunities, immunodeficiencies, malignancies, and developmental deficiencies of the hematopoietic system. Recombinant inbred SCG/Kj mice develop spontaneous crescentic glomerulonephritis, systemic vasculitis, and a lymphoproliferative disorder early in life. To determine whether the precipitous autoimmune disease of SCG/Kj mice could be treated by bone marrow transplantation, 30 SCG/Kj mice were engrafted with T-cell-depleted, bone marrow (TCDM) from allogeneic, MHC-compatible, autoimmune-resistant C3H/He donors, and 30 SCG/Kj mice served as controls and received TCDM from syngeneic, SCG/Kj donors. A significant survival advantage was evident from SCG/Kj mice engrafted with C3H/He TCDM (p < 0.005), and an 89% extension of median survival compared to recipients of SCG/Kj TCDM. Within 28 weeks post-transplantation, 62% of mice engrafted with SCG/Kj TCDM had died with clinical signs of fatal crescentic glomerulonephritis. This result compared with only 10% of mice engrafted with C3H/He TCDM. Mice engrafted with SCG/Kj TCDM developed significantly greater titers of autoantibodies to ss-DNA, ds-DNA, and myeloperoxidase (ANCA) (p < 0.001), had shorter latencies to the development of, and a greater incidence of proteinuria, hematuria, and peripheral lymphadenopathy, and a greater mean grade of glomerular lesion (p < 0.001), than mice engrafted with C3H/He TCDM. These findings indicate that the genetic defect of the SCG/Kj strain of mice resides within the hematopoietic stem cells and provokes the speculation that bone marrow transplantation might be a useful means of treating progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis in humans.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, All Children's Hospital, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg 33701, USA.
authors.lastname: Cherry
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Engelman
authors.forename: B Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kinjoh
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: El-Badri
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Good
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000097:blood; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D004247:DNA / Q000276:immunology; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006965:Hyperplasia; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000473:pathology; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009195:Peroxidase / Q000276:immunology; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology; D015996:Survival Rate
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D004247:DNA; D009195:Peroxidase