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Diabetic rat glomerular mesangial cells display normal inositol trisphosphate and calcium release

R. D. Hurst, C. I. Whiteside and J. C. Thompson
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Since diabetes may cause cellular myo-inositol depletion, we investigated whether the observed in vitro hypocontractile response of streptozotocin (STZ)-treated rat glomeruli to angiotensin II (ANG II) is associated with an alteration in inositol trisphosphate (IP3) mobilization of intracellular Ca2+. Contraction of diabetic isolated glomeruli induced by ANG II (5 microM), measured in vitro by changes in the planar area, was reduced by 60%, compared with normal up to 60 min (P < 0.05). In cells of isolated glomeruli, preloaded with myo-[3H]inositol, production of [3H]inositol phosphates ([3H]IPs) and [3H]inositol trisphosphate ([3H]IP3) was analyzed by Dowex chromatography. ANG II (1 microM) evoked an immediate peak (5-10 s) in total [3H]IPs of 60.5 +/- 18.8% (mean +/- SE) above basal (nonstimulated state) in normal glomeruli, and 88.4 +/- 19.4% in diabetic condition [not significant (NS), n = 8]. At 60 s, the normal and diabetic total [3H]IPs responses were not significantly different from each other. The immediate (10 s) [3H]IP3 response from normal glomeruli, 8.1 +/- 7.9% above basal, was not significantly different from that of diabetic glomeruli, 15.7 +/- 7.4%. ANG II receptor-mediated rise in cytosolic Ca2+ in the cells of normal and diabetic isolated glomeruli was compared by measuring the efflux of 45Ca2+. Isolated glomeruli were preloaded with 45Ca2+. Following ANG II stimulation, peak 45Ca2+ efflux values at 1 min were 141.7 +/- 15.9% (normal) vs. 143.7 +/- 7.8% (diabetic) of baseline (100%), respectively (NS, n = 4). Thapsigargin, 2 microM, specifically prevented ANG II-stimulated and IP3-mediated 45Ca2+ efflux (73% inhibition, P < 0.001) from cells of whole glomeruli.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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