タナカ　リョウジロウ   Ryojiro Tanaka   田中　亮二郎    所属   川崎医科大学  医学部 臨床医学　小児科学    職種   特任教授
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Increased chymase-positive mast cells in children with crescentic glomerulonephritis.
掲載誌名	正式名：Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 略　 称：Pediatr Nephrol ISSNコード：1432198X/0931041X
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	24(5),pp.1071-5
著者・共著者	Hiroko Togawa, Koichi Nakanishi, Yuko Shima, Mina Obana, Mayumi Sako, Kandai Nozu, Ryojiro Tanaka, Kazumoto Iijima, Norishige Yoshikawa
発行年月	2009/05
概要	Mast cell-derived chymase is an angiotensin II-forming enzyme that appears to be involved in tubulointerstitial fibrosis in the kidneys. Previous studies have shown that the level of chymase increases in grafted kidneys after rejection and in adult patients with diabetic nephropathy. However, the significance of chymase in children with renal diseases has not been investigated. Using immunohistochemistry, we have investigated chymase expression in biopsy samples of renal tissue from 104 children with kidney diseases, including rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis (n = 3), diabetic nephropathy (n = 2), allografted kidney (n = 3), membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (n = 6), immunoglobulin A nephropathy (n = 33) and Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis (n = 23). Increased numbers of chymase-positive mast cells were observed in the renal cortex of all three patients with crescentic glomerulonephritis (mean 26.0/mm(2); range 19.3-36.8/mm(2)). Chymase-positive cells were also observed in the renal biopsy of an allografted kidney and in those from children with diabetic nephropathy. The mean number of chymase-positive cells in renal tissue samples characterized by each renal disease was significantly correlated with the mean intensity of the interstitial fibrosis in that same tissue sample (Spearman's rank correlation test p = 0.0013; rank correlation coefficient 0.84). These findings suggest that mast cell-derived chymase plays an important role in juvenile crescentic glomerulonephritis.
DOI	10.1007/s00467-008-1044-2
PMID	19050935