Intragraft TGF-beta 1 mRNA: a correlate of interstitial fibrosis and chronic allograft nephropathy. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Chronic allograft nephropathy is a relentlessly progressive process and a major cause of long-term graft dysfunction and ultimate failure. Interstitial fibrosis, tubular atrophy, and glomerular and vascular lesions characterize this mechanistically unresolved disorder. Given the prominent role of TGF-beta 1 in tissue repair and in fibrosis, we have explored the hypothesis that fibrosis and chronic allograft nephropathy would be distinguished by intragraft TGF-beta 1 mRNA expression. This postulate was tested by mRNA phenotyping of RNA isolated from 127 human renal allograft biopsies. Reverse transcription assisted polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify and identify ingraft gene expression. Our investigation demonstrated a significant correlation between intragraft TGF-beta 1 mRNA display and renal allograft interstitial fibrosis and chronic allograft nephropathy. In contrast, intragraft expression of mRNA encoding immunoregulatory cytokines, IL-2, IFN-gamma, IL-4, IL-10, or cytotoxic attack molecules, granzyme B and perforin was not a correlate of interstitial fibrosis or chronic allograft nephropathy. Our studies identify, for the first time, a significant association between intragraft TGF-beta 1 mRNA expression and renal allograft interstitial fibrosis, and advance a candidate molecular mechanism for chronic allograft nephropathy.

publication date

  • May 1, 1996

Research

keywords

  • Kidney Diseases
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0029937385

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1038/ki.1996.185

PubMed ID

  • 8731094

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 49

issue

  • 5