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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-1-29
pubmed:abstractText
The protein kinase C (PKC)-beta isoform has been implicated to play a pivotal role in the development of diabetic kidney disease. We tested this hypothesis by inducing diabetic nephropathy in PKC-beta-deficient (PKC-beta(-/-)) mice. We studied nondiabetic and streptozotocin-induced diabetic PKC-beta(-/-) mice compared with appropriate 129/SV wild-type mice. After 8 weeks of diabetes, the high-glucose-induced renal and glomerular hypertrophy, as well as the increased expression of extracellular matrix proteins such as collagen and fibronectin, was reduced in PKC-beta(-/-) mice. Furthermore, the high-glucose-induced expression of the profibrotic cytokine transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 and connective tissue growth factor were significantly diminished in the diabetic PKC-beta(-/-) mice compared with diabetic wild-type mice, suggesting a role of the PKC-beta isoform in the regulation of renal hypertrophy. Notably, increased urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio persisted in the diabetic PKC-beta(-/-) mice. The loss of the basement membrane proteoglycan perlecan and the podocyte protein nephrin in the diabetic state was not prevented in the PKC-beta(-/-) mice as previously demonstrated in the nonalbuminuric diabetic PKC-alpha(-/-) mice. In summary, the differential effects of PKC-beta deficiency on diabetes-induced renal hypertrophy and albuminuria suggest that PKC-beta contributes to high-glucose-induced TGF-beta1 expression and renal fibrosis, whereas perlecan, as well as nephrin, expression and albuminuria is regulated by other signaling pathways.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Collagen Type IV, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Creatinine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Fibronectins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Isoforms, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Kinase C, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Streptozocin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transforming Growth Factor beta1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/nephrin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/perlecan
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0012-1797
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
346-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Albuminuria, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Chromosome Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Collagen Type IV, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Creatinine, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Diabetic Nephropathies, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Fibronectins, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Fibrosis, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Hypertrophy, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Kidney, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Organ Size, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Protein Isoforms, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Protein Kinase C, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Streptozocin, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Transforming Growth Factor beta1, pubmed-meshheading:17259378-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Deletion of protein kinase C-beta isoform in vivo reduces renal hypertrophy but not albuminuria in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic mouse model.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany. meier.matthias@mh-hannover.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't