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Journal of Electron Microscopy Advance Access originally published online on June 1, 2006
Journal of Electron Microscopy 2006 55(2):69-73; doi:10.1093/jmicro/dfl010
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Japanese Society of Microscopy. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Clinical applications of the quick-freezing and deep-etching method to human diabetic nephropathy

Tatsumi Moriya1, Shinichi Ohno2, Keiji Tanaka1 and Yoshikuni Fujita1

1 Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Kitasato University School of Medicine 1-15-1 Kitasato, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 228-8555, Japan
2 Department of Anatomy, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi 1110 Shimokatoh, Tamaho, Yamanashi, 409-3898, Japan

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: moriy{at}kitasato-u.ac.jp

Mesangial expansion and glomerular basement membrane (GBM) thickening were not different between normoalbuminuric (NA) and microalbuminuric (MA) type 2 diabetic patients. The quick-freezing and deep-etching (QF-DE) method allows us to examine three-dimensional ultrastructures of human renal glomeruli in vivo at high resolution. In the present study, the QF-DE method was applied to the renal biopsy from 6 type 2 diabetic patients without definable renal diseases other than diabetic nephropathy. Four patients were NA and the other two were MA. Three control specimens were normal parts in surgically resected kidneys of renal cell carcinoma. Replica membranes were prepared by the QF-DE method as previously described. By the QF-DE method, both GBM middle layer and mesangial matrix (MM) were composed of polygonal meshwork structures. The mesh pores of GBM and MM were more enlarged in size and irregular in shape in NA diabetic patients than those of the controls, and these ultrastructural changes became more obvious in MA patients. The diameters of mesh pores in the diabetic patients were significantly larger than those in the control subjects. In conclusion, the QF-DE method could be applied to needle renal biopsy and the present study has firstly clarified the difference of ultrastructural changes between NA and MA type 2 diabetic patients, which had not been disclosed by the conventional electron microscopy, were revealed by the QF-DE method.

Keywords     diabetic nephropathy, quick-freezing and deep-etching, meshwork structure, glomerular basement membrane, mesangial matrix

Received      2 January 2006, accepted 2 April 2006


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