05.05 - Glomerular Structure, Injury (Nichols, Handorf) - Based on word doc Flashcards
Hyaline Sclerosis in HTN vs DM
In HTN, just afferent arteriole; In DM, both
Anti-GBM disease is associated with
Smoking, being male
Location of In situ immune complex formation and deposition
Subepithelial
What does Trichrome stain highlight
Collagen
Treatment of Anti-GBM Ab disease
Removing them with Plasmapharesis
IgA Nephropathy is due to
Production of Abnormal IgA that self-aggregates and binds IgG –> immune complex formation –> Mesangial cell activation –> Complement-mediated injurious inflammation
What stain highlights the GBM
Jones silver stain
What is becoming the most common type of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
Pauci-immune
3 most common types of glomerular disease
(1) HTN, (2) Diabetic, (3) Immune-mediated
Most common cause of glomerular disease
Hypertension
Platelet mechanisms of glomerular injury in immune-mediated disease
Release AA metabolites
In situ immune complex formation with Ab’s against podocyte cell membrane antigens causes great majority of
Membranous Glomerulonephritis
Calcium binding properties
Features of Entactin
What does Global Glomerular Disease refer to
Involves all of a single glomerulus
Feedback loop with hypertensive kidney disease
Glomerular Disease causes HTN, and HTN causes glomerular disease
What happens to GBM in DM
Glycosylated plasma proteins get trapped –> GBM gets thickened
What does Diffuse Mesangial Sclerosis mean
Sclerosis of all the mesangium in one glomerulus
What causes Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
Leakage of Plasma Proteins into urinary space (particularly when mixed with Ab’s, Immune Complexes, Inflammatory Cytokines, Inflammaotry cells, and ROS)
Location of immune complex deposition in Post-Strep Glomerulonephritis
Subepithelial
Important Concept: ____ is a major mechanisms of glomerular injury
Antibody deposition
Mutations in what result in congenital nephrotic syndromes?
Nephrin and Podocin
Urine in Malignant HTN
Marked Proteinuria, Microscopic Hematuria
Features of Perlecan
Strong negative charge - prevents Albumin from entering
Crescent Glomerulonephritis is associated with
Rapid Progression of Disease
What activates the Complement pathway in IgA Nephropathy
Mesangial cells are activated in response to binding and phagocytosing immune complexes –> Proliferate and increase production of ECM proteins and cytokines
Features of Laminin
Binds to other components
Features of Entactin
Calcium binding properties
Form of Glomerulonephritis w/ localization of immune complexes in the mesangium
IgA Nephropathy
Subepithelial Humps
Pattern of immune complex deposits in Post-Strep Glomerulonephritis EM
Leukocyte mechanisms of glomerular injury and malfunction
Leakage of lysosomal proteases and ROS, Production of AA metabolites that reduce GFR
What is the Non-Collagenous Domain
Non-helical globular domain
Infectious diseases involve what parts of nephron
Tubules and Interstitium far more often than glomeruli
What are Thrombotic Microangiopathies
Loss of normal endothelial function needed to prevent thrombosis
Result of Foot Process Effacement
Retraction and loss of SPD; Detachment from GBM and degradation of GBM –> Plasma protein linkage
What mediates the accelerated aging in DM
Advanced Glycation end-products (AGE)
What is Arterio-Nephro-Sclerosis
(1) Narrowing of lumen from plasma leakage; (2) Gradual ischemic atrophy of glomerulus; (3) End result is global sclerosis of glomeruli
In whom is malignant HTN more common
Black males around 40
What tends to have a Linear pattern on immunofluorescence and be invisible on EM
Anti-GBM Ab deposition
2 diseases associated leading to Arterionephrosclerosis
HTN, DM
Wire Loops
Extensive confluent subendothelial deposits thickening the capillary walls
Nephrin and its associated protein are crucial to
Maintaining selective permeability of glomerular filtration barrier
Gross appearance of kidney in malignant HTN
Flea-Bitten
Crescent-shaped area of inflammation w/ proliferation of parietal epithelial cells
Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
2 diseases associated with ApoL1 mutation
Arterionephrosclerosis, Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
Strong negative charge - prevents Albumin from entering
Features of Perlecan
What happens to arterioles in Malignant HTN
Fibrinoid Necrosis of Arterioles
What is Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
Crescent-shaped area of inflammation w/ proliferation of parietal epithelial cells
Diseases caused by Ab’s against epitope in the NC1 domain of alpha3 chain cause
Glomerulonephritis w/ Hematuria
Effects if DM on nephron
Mesangial cell hypertrophy and hyperplasia; Diffuse mesangial matrix production; Podocyte injury and apoptosis; Thickening of tubular BM’s
Most common glomerular disease
Vascular, Hypertensive Nephropathy
What causes the damage in IgA Nephropathy
Complement activation generates the injurious inflammation
In whom is end-stage renal disease due to HTN more common
8x more common in blacks
What can cause Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
Leakage of plasma proteins into urinary space (particularly when mixed with Ab’s, Immune Complexes, Inflammatory Cells, and ROS)
Renal neoplasms arise from
Tubular Epithelium
Result of injury to glomerular capillary endothelium
Loss of normal endothelial function needed to prevent thrombosis
Pattern of immune complex deposition in immunofluorescence
Clumps, granular pattern
Goodpasture Syndrome
Glomerulonephritis w Hematuria, along w/ Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Hemoptysis
What does PAS stain highlight
Cellular cytoplasmic inclusions
Effect of supra-normal glomerular capillary pressure on glomerulus
GBM thickening, Mesangial Hypertrophy and Hyperplasia, Mesangial Matrix production
When proliferating parietal epithelial cells and infiltrating macrophages and inflammatory exudate and leaked plasma create a visible crescent of inflammation around glomerular tuft of cpaillaries
Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
Slit Pore Diaphragm proteins that serve to bind adjacent pediceles
Cadherin, FAT
Glomerular diseases that involve the capillary endothelium or subendotheial portion of glomeruli tend to cause
Hematuria
Site of Ab deposition in SLE
Subendothelial
Compensation for nephron loss requires
Increased filtration per glomerulus and increased glomerular transcapillary pressure
In conditions causing severe loss of protein thru slit pore diaphragms, EM frequently shows
Fusion of Foot Processes = Effacement
Ab against NC1 domain + Ab’s against lung basement membrane
Goodpasture Syndrome
Second most common glomerular disease
DM
Mesenchymal cells w/ phagocytic and contractile properites
Mesangial Cells
With what is C-ANCA associated
Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
Vascular clotting disorders such as HUS, TTP, and DIC involve what part of nephron
Glomerulus
Anti-GBM Ab deposition tends to have what pattern
Linear pattern on immunofluorescence and be invisible on EM
End result of many glomerular diseases
Fibrous replacement of glomerulus = Glomerulosclerosis
What is hypothesized to happen in Post-Strep Glomerulonephritis
Antigens and Ab’s arrive in glomerulus separately and form complexes in situ
Features of Fibronectin
Connection and adhesion of components
Extensive confluent subendothelial deposits thickening the capillary walls
Wire Loops
Connection and adhesion of components
Fibronectin
Glomerular diseases that involve which side of glomerulus are worse
Capillary side
What causes the great majority of Membranous Glomerulonephritis
In situ immune complex formation with Ab’s against podocyte cell membrane antigens
Glomerular diseases that involve only the podocytes, slit diaphragm, or subepithelial portion of the glomeruli tend to cause
Proteinuria
Presentation of Malignant HTN
Symptoms of increased intracranial pressure: Headache, Scotomas, Vomitting
What happens to surviving nephrons after nephron loss
Hypertrophy, with hyperplasia of glomerular and tubular cells, longer tubules
Hyperplastic Arteriosclerosis + Arterial Fibrinoid Necrosis
Malignant HTN
What causes Flea-Bitten Kidney
Small arteries/arterioles damaged by malignant HTN rupture all over kidney
Toxic diseases tend to involve what part of nephron
Tubules more than Glomeruli
(1) Narrowing of lumen from plasma leakage; (2) Gradual ischemic atrophy of glomerulus; (3) End result is global sclerosis of glomeruli
What is Arterio-Nephro-Sclerosis
Glomerulonephritis w Hematuria, along w/ Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Hemoptysis
Goodpasture Syndrome
Histopathologic correlate of the clinical syndrome of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
What does Segmental Glomerular Disease mean
Involves only part of glomerulus
Membranous glomerulopathy is characterized by
Increased glomerular basement membrane, w/out an increase in cells
What percent of glomerular disease in children is primary? In adults?
95%; 60%
With what is P-ANCA associated
Microscopic Polyangiitis, Churg-Strauss
Cell binding of basement membrane is mediated mostly by
Integrins
Slit Pore Diaphragm proteins that play role in filtration
Nephrin, Podocin
Effect of AA metabolites on glomerulus
Reduce GFR
AI diseases highly favor what part of nephron
Glomeruli