Glomerular Subendothelial and Subepithelial Immune Complexes, Containing the Same Antigen, Are Removed at Different Rates

Overview

Journal Clin Exp Immunol

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 1991 May 1

PMID 2025961

Citations 1

Authors

M Mannik

S A Stapleton

M W Burns

C E Alpers

V J Gauthier

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Abstract

To examine the persistence of immune deposits in the subendothelial and subepithelial areas of the glomerular basement membrane in rats, immune deposits were formed by injection of radiolabelled, cationized human serum albumin (HSA) as antigen, followed by rabbit antibodies to HSA. The disappearance of the radiolabelled antigen from immune deposits in glomeruli was described by a curve consisting of two exponential components. By electron microscopy, subendothelial and subepithelial immune deposits were initially present in glomeruli. At later time-points, only subepithelial immune deposits were present. The fast component of disappearance, attributed to subendothelial deposits, had a half-life of 3.89 +/- 0.32 h. The slow component of disappearance from glomeruli, attributed to subepithelial deposits, had a half-life of 85.5 +/- 3.1 h. Since some of the injected, radiolabelled antigen was sequestered in other compartments of the body, the possibility was raised that antigen from these sites might be released and contribute to the persistence of deposits in glomeruli. This possibility, however, was excluded when transplantation of kidneys with immune deposits to untreated recipients revealed no difference in the amount of antigen persisting in nontransplanted and transplanted kidneys.

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