Diabetes, Vol 45, Issue 1 44-50, Copyright © 1996 by American Diabetes Association

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Effect of prostaglandin E2 and hyaluronan on mesangial cell proliferation. A potential contribution to glomerular hypercellularity in diabetes

P Mahadevan, RG Larkins, JR Fraser and ME Dunlop
Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.

Proliferation of mesangial cells is a feature of several forms of human and experimental glomerulopathy, including that seen in diabetes. The nonsulfated glycosaminoglycan hyaluronan participates in the regulation of pericellular matrix assembly and is a mitogen in some cell types. We have shown previously that hyaluronan production is increased in the glomerulus in a glucose- and prostaglandin-dependent manner. We have investigated the effect of diabetes and of addition of hyaluronan and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) on the uptake of [3H]thymidine by glomerular core preparations enriched in mesangial cells. When compared with nondiabetic controls, it was shown that [3H]thymidine uptake was significantly increased in glomerular core preparations from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats (to 169 +/- 5%, P < 0.001). In glomerular cores from both experimental groups, hyaluronan (50-250 ng/ml) or PGE2 (10(-12) to 10(-8) mol/l) increased the uptake of [3H]thymidine. Further, mesangial cells from nondiabetic control glomerular cores, when maintained in culture in early passage, responded with increased [3H]thymidine uptake to raised glucose (5.6-25 mmol/l) and to added hyaluronan and PGE2. We propose that prostaglandin and hyaluronan production in response to a raised glucose environment in diabetes can contribute to mesangial hypercellularity.
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