Immune complex glomerulonephritis is induced in rats immunized with heterologous myeloperoxidase
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical and Experimental Immunology
- Vol. 97 (3), 466-473
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2249.1994.tb06111.x
Abstract
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), including anti-myeloperoxidase (MPO) antibodies, are associated with pauci-immune necrotizing small vessel vasculitis or glomerulonephritis. In order to substantiate a pathogenic role for ANCA, an animal model of pauci-immune ANCA-induced glomerulonephritis or vasculitis is required. Brouwer et al. reported pauci-immune glomerulonephritis in rats immunized with human MPO followed by perfusion of kidneys with lysosomal enzyme extract combined with H2O2, and suggested that this could serve as a model of ANCA-induced disease. We repeated these studies in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Brown Norway rats (BNR). We immunized rats with human MPO. When circulating anti-MPO antibodies were detectable by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy and ELISA, blood pressure was measured, then perfusion of the left kidney of each rat was done via the renal artery in a closed, blood-free circuit with either MPO + H2O2, MPO, H2O2 alone or MPO + H2O2 + neutral protease. Rats were killed on day 4 or day 10 after perfusion, and specimens were examined by light and immunofluorescence microscopy. Pathological lesions and deposits of IgG, C3, and MPO were found in immunized rats perfused with MPO + H2O2 with or without neutral protease, or MPO alone, in both rat strains and on both day 4 and day 10. The degree of histologic injury was proportional in intensity to the amount of IgG immune deposits. Spontaneously hypertensive rats sustained more damage and higher blood pressure than Brown Norway rats. No lesion was observed in immunized rats perfused with H2O2 or in the non-perfused right kidneys. Some of the non-immunized rats perfused with MPO + H2O2 developed pathological lesions. In conclusion, these rat models are examples of immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis, and therefore are not similar to human ANCA-associated disease.Keywords
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