Dominant T cells in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome of childhood
Dominant T cells in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome of childhood. Because of several studies, idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) of childhood is suspected to have an immunologic pathogenesis with T cells playing a major role. To investigate this hypothesis further, we studied the diversity of the CDR...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Kidney international 2000-02, Vol.57 (2), p.510-517 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Dominant T cells in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome of childhood.
Because of several studies, idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) of childhood is suspected to have an immunologic pathogenesis with T cells playing a major role. To investigate this hypothesis further, we studied the diversity of the CDR3 region of the T-cell receptor (TCR) β;-chain from peripheral T cells isolated from patients with INS.
The study was performed over a three-year period to obtain longitudinal data on the repertoire of peripheral T cells. mRNA from peripheral mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of seven INS patients and two healthy controls (NHD) was prepared and analyzed for CDR3 length polymorphism of TCR β;-chain by spectratyping.
All INS patients presented individually skewed spectratype histograms in at least one Vβ;-family. Patients suffering from a frequent relapsing course of INS or a focal global sclerosis showed some alterations to persist in all samples isolated in the observation period (up to 3 years). In addition, sequence analyses of the β;-chain of the TCR CDR3 region confirmed clonal expansion of peripheral T cells in those patients who had displayed spectratype alterations.
The data give strong evidence for an direct involvement of CD8+ T cells in the complicated course of INS. |
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ISSN: | 0085-2538 1523-1755 |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00870.x |