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. 1985 Nov;76(5):1796–1806. doi: 10.1172/JCI112171

Disparate mechanisms for hypoxic cell injury in different nephron segments. Studies in the isolated perfused rat kidney.

M Brezis, P Shanley, P Silva, K Spokes, S Lear, F H Epstein, S Rosen
PMCID: PMC424210  PMID: 4056054

Abstract

Hypoxic injury was evaluated morphologically in the proximal tubule and in the medullary thick ascending limb of isolated rat kidneys perfused for 90 min without O2 or with various metabolic inhibitors. Inhibition of mitochondrial respiration (with rotenone, antimycin, oligomycin) or of intermediary metabolism (with monofluoroacetate, malonate, 2-deoxyglucose) caused reduction in renal oxygen consumption, renal function, and ATP content comparable with those elicited by oxygen deprivation. Metabolic inhibition produced hypoxiclike injury in the first portions of the proximal tubule, S1 and S2 ("clubbing" of microvilli, mitochondrial swelling), and the extent of damage was correlated with the degree of ATP depletion. In the third portion of the proximal tubule, S3, hypoxiclike damage (cytoplasmic edema or fragmentation) occurred most consistently when both aerobic and anaerobic metabolism were inhibited simultaneously. In the medullary thick ascending limb, none of the metabolic or mitochondrial inhibitors used could reproduce the injury of oxygen deprivation. Thus, the proximal tubule and the thick ascending limb have markedly different responses to cellular energy depletion, suggesting disparate mechanisms for hypoxic injury along the nephron.

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