title: Fibroblasts and antigen-presenting cells in the renal interstitium of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats on a high cholesterol diet.
abstract: The cortical peritubular interstitium of the normal kidney contains both fibroblasts and antigen-presenting dendritic cells. Characteristics of these interstitial cells were analyzed in an overnutrition model by electron microscopy after the cold-dehydration technique and immunohistochemistry for antigen-presenting cells. In control rats, fibroblasts and dendritic cells were clearly identified by electron microscopy on the basis of their distinct ultrastructures. Fibroblasts possessed slender cell processes, and contained an abundance of actin filament bundles occasionally anchoring to surrounding structures, whereas dendritic cells possessed irregularly-shaped cell processes with a clear cytoplasm and a paucity of actin filament bundles. In the experimental kidney from diabetic rats given a high cholesterol diet, the peritubular interstitium contained fibroblasts and vacuolated cells, and the extracellular matrices such as collagen bundles were distinctly increased compared with the control rat kidney. Immunohistochemical staining with OX6 and ED1 revealed that the peritubular interstitium in the control rat kidney contained dendritic cells, while that in the experimental rats was occupied by macrophages. The present study provides the first evidence indicating that overnutrition may dramatically affect the immune cells in nonlymphoid tissue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Chiba College of Health Science, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hosoyamada
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kudo
authors.forename: Koichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ichimura
authors.forename: Hidetake
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kurihara
authors.forename: Tatsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000938:Antigen-Presenting Cells / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D004036:Diet, Atherogenic; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary