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Effects of Lead Administration on Developing Rat Kidney: II. Functional, Morphologic, and Immunohistochemical Studies

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The effects of chronic lead administration on renal function and cytoarchitecture and on the immunohistochemical localization of glutathione S-transferase (GST) isoenzymes were determined. Pregnant rats were given 250 ppm lead acetate in drinking water from conception until weaning and mothers and pups received 500 ppm of lead acetate from weaning until termination at either 3 or 7 weeks of age. Light and electron microscopic studies after 3 weeks of lead administration showed tubular injury with frequent mitoses noted in proximal tubular cells and, after 7 weeks of treatment, interstitial fibrosis, characteristic intranuclear inclusions, and tubular injury characterized by both nuclear and cytoplasmic pleomorphism. Rats treated with lead for 7 weeks showed significantly lower body weights and creatinine clearances than age-matched control animals. Immunohistochemical studies of glutathione transferase subunits in control rats showed unique isoform localization in each segment of the nephron; treatment with lead caused large increases in immunoreactive protein of Yc, Yk, Yb1, and Yp GST subunits in proximal tubules. No increases in the antioxidant enzymes copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase were found in lead-treated rats, but there was a diffuse lead-related increase in immunoreactive protein for manganese superoxide dismutase throughout the renal cortex. Our results demonstrate large lead-induced increases of specific isoforms of glutathione S-transferase in specific kidney cell types and show that these increases preceded irreversible renal damage.

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