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Localisation of immunoreactive kininogen and tissue kallikrein in the human nephron

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The cellular localisation of kininogen and its relationships with tissue kallikrein containing cells was studied in the human kidney by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method using antisera to human LMW kininogen and to human tissue kallikrein. Immunoreactive kininogen was localised in the principal cells of collecting ducts. Immunoreactive tissue kallikrein was detected in the connecting tubule cells segment of the nephron preceeding the cortical collecting ducts. The co-existence of tissue kallikrein and kininogen in the same transitional tubule, but in different cells, was established by the use of serial sections and double immunostaining. This anatomical relationship is in accordance with known studies that describe intermingling of principal cells and connecting tubule cells where connecting tubules merge into cortical collecting ducts in the human nephron. the close relationship between cells that contain tissue kallikrein and its substrate, kininogen, suggests that kinins could be generated in the lumen of distal cortical segments of the human nephron.

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, University of Bristol, BS8 1TD, Bristol, England

    C. D. Figueroa & K. D. Bhoola

  2. Department of Pathology, University of Bristol, BS8 1TD, Bristol, England

    A. G. MacIver

  3. Department of Nephrology, Medical School, University of Bristol, BS8 1TD, Bristol, England

    J. C. Mackenzie

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Figueroa, C.D., MacIver, A.G., Mackenzie, J.C. et al. Localisation of immunoreactive kininogen and tissue kallikrein in the human nephron. Histochemistry 89, 437–442 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00492599

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