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Expression of UT-A in Rat Kidney: Ultrastructural Immunocytochemistry  

Lim, Sun-Woo (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
Jung, Ju-Young (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
Kim, Wan-Young (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
Han, Ki-Hwan (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
Cha, Jung-Ho (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
Chung, Jin-Woong (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
Kim, Jin (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
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Applied Microscopy / v.32, no.2, 2002 , pp. 91-105 More about this Journal
Abstract
Urea transport in the kidney is mediated by a family of transporter proteins that includes renal urea transporters (UT-A) and erythrocyte urea transporters (UT-B). The cDNA of five isoforms of rat UT-A, UTA1, UT-A2, UT-A3, UT-A4, and UT-A5 have been cloned. The purpose of this study was to examine the expression of UT-A (L194), which marked UT-A1, UT-A2 and UT-A4. Male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing approximately 200 g, were divided into three group: control rats had free access to water, dehydrated rats were deprived of water for 3 d, and water loaded rats had free access to 3% sucrose water for 3 d before being killed. The kidneys were preserved by in vivo perfusion through the abdominal aorta with the 2% paraformaldehyde-lysine- periodate (PLP) or 8% paraformaldehyde solution for 10 min. The sections were processed for immunohistochemical studies using pre-embedding immunoperoxidase method and immunogold method. In the normal rat kidney, UT-A1 was expressed intensely in the cytoplasm of the inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) cell and UT-A2 was expressed on the plasma membrane of the terminal portion of the shortloop descending thin limb (DTL) cells (type I epithelium) and of the long-loop DTL cells (type II epithelium) in the initial part of the inner medulla. Immunoreactivity for UT-A1 in the IMCD cells, was decreased in dehydrated animals whereas strongly increased in water loaded animals compared with control animals. In the short-loop DTL, immunoreactivity for UT-A2 was increased in intensity in both dehydrated and water loaded groups. However, in the long-loop DTL of the outer part of the inner medulla, immunoreactivity for UT-A2 was markedly increase in intensity in dehydrated group, but not in water loaded group. In conclusion, in the rat kidney, UT-A1 is located in the cytoplasm of IMCD cells, whereas UT-A2 is located in the plasma membrane of both the short-and long-loop DTL cells. Immunohistochemistry studies revealed that UT-A1 and UT-A2 may have a different role in urea transport and are regulated by different mechanisms.
Keywords
Descending thin limb; Immunohistochemistry; Inner medullary collecting duct; Urea transporter;
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