Abstract
The role of cell-cell contact on activating mesangial cell proliferation by nephritic macrophage was investigated. Nephritic glomerular macrophages were obtained from serum sickness nephritis (SSN) rat kidneys at 14 days after the cessation of sensitization, when proliferating cells were most increased in the glomeruli in the course of the SSN. The effect of the nephritic macrophages on mesangial cell proliferation was greater than that of control by co-culture allowing cellular contact. However, nephritic macrophages did not enhance mesangial cell proliferation by co-culture without direct contact even though the nephritic macrophages were activated with lipopolysaccharides. Conditioned medium from co-culture of the nephritic macrophages and mesangial cells did not enhance mesangial cell proliferation. Anti-intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAM)-1 antibody inhibited mesangial cell proliferation by direct co-culture dose-dependently. From these results, cellular contact was important for stimulation of mesangial cell proliferation by macrophages and ICAM-1 participated in these interactions.
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