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Expression of HGF mRNA in human rejecting kidney as evidenced by in situ hybridization

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In situ hybridization was performed to demonstrate hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) mRNA in two patients with normal kidney and in 23 patients with allograft nephrectomy. In situ hybridization was combined with immunohistochemistry to identify HGF-producing cells. In the two patients with normal kdieny, no HGF mRNA was obtainable. In 15 of the 23 allograft patients, signals of HGF mRNA were detectable. In six of these 15 patients, the signals were present mainly at the medullocortex junction, and in the other nine patients at the cortex and/or medulla. Strong and frequent signals were present in gland-like structures in 15 cases. Some scattered signals were also present in the fibrosed glomeruli in five cases, in the thickened intimas of large arteries in three cases, and in the arterial muscle coats in two cases. Combined immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization showed that HGF mRNA-positive cells in gland-like arrangements were also positive for cytokeratin and negative for factor VIII. Cells with HGF mRNA signal and located in the arterial media were also positive for actin. These findings suggest that HGF mRNA is transcribed both in the urinary tubular epithelium and in the mesenchymal cells (fibroblasts, and smooth muscle cells in chronic vascular rejection and endothelial cells and/or mesangial cells in transplant glomerulopathy) in human rejecting kidney.

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Yamaguchi, K., Nalesnik, M.A. & Michalopoulos, G.K. Expression of HGF mRNA in human rejecting kidney as evidenced by in situ hybridization. Urol. Res. 24, 349–354 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389792

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