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. 1992 Mar 15;89(6):2218–2222. doi: 10.1073/pnas.89.6.2218

Increased permeability across the blood-nerve barrier of albumin glycated in vitro and in vivo from patients with diabetic polyneuropathy.

J F Poduslo 1, G L Curran 1
PMCID: PMC48628  PMID: 1549585

Abstract

The blood-nerve transfer of human plasma albumin glycated with D-glucose was investigated by measuring the permeability coefficient-surface area product (PS) of the blood-nerve barrier to radioiodinated albumin in normal adult rat sciatic nerve. Human albumin (ALB) from normal individuals, freshly isolated by CM-Affi-Gel Blue affinity chromatography, was glycated in vitro for 1, 3, 10, 19, and 30 weeks. Glycated ALB (gALB) was separated from the nonglycated form by boronate-affinity chromatography. The efficiency of this separation was assessed by chromatography of ALB glycated with [14C]glucose and by rechromatography of isolated ALB and gALB after radioiodination. The gALB was also shown to have a higher molecular weight and be completely separated from ALB after SDS/pore gradient electrophoresis in a Tris borate/EDTA buffer. After 1 week of glycation, the gALB PS was 2.2-fold greater than the ALB PS (0.724 +/- 0.063 x 10(-6) vs. 0.328 +/- 0.053 x 10(-6) ml.g-1.s-1; mean +/- SD; P less than 0.0001) and it increased with the time of glycation reaching a maximum value of 16.2-fold greater at 30 weeks (4.656 +/- 1.117 x 10(-6) vs. 0.288 +/- 0.042 x 10(-6) ml.g-1.s-1; mean +/- SD; P less than 0.0001). No change was observed in the residual endoneurial plasma volume. In addition, the PS of gALB isolated from patients with diabetic polyneuropathy was significantly increased (P less than 0.0001) compared to the PS for ALB isolated from the same patients. It is hypothesized that the increased permeability of gALB and presumably other glycated serum components across the blood-nerve barrier, as well as the observed quantitative increase in ALB, IgG, and IgM in sural nerve biopsies from patients with diabetic polyneuropathy contribute to the development of diabetic polyneuropathy over a prolonged period of time by mechanisms that might involve osmotic changes in the nerve microenvironment, direct toxic effects of glycated macromolecules on cells within the endoneurium, or nerve damage by classical immunological mechanisms due to trapping of glycated immunoglobulins within nerve.

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