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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 139, 949-957, Copyright © 1991 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Modulation of mesangial cell proliferation by endothelial cells in coculture

T Saeki, T Morioka, M Arakawa, F Shimizu and T Oite
Department of Medicine (II), Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan.

The effects of direct cell contact between endothelial (ECs) and mesangial cells (MCs) on MCs proliferation were examined in a coculture system in vitro. Mitomycin C treated ECs (M-ECs) were plated on culture dishes and MCs were cocultured with these M-ECs. Cell number was measured at the end of days 1, 3, and 5. In the coculture system with direct contact, the growth of cocultured MCs was modulated as follows: 1) the growth of MCs was inhibited up to day 3, and 2) a high level of proliferation was observed between days 3 and 5. This biphasic pattern of growth could not be detected in coculture of fibroblasts with MCs. In coculture without direct contact, using intercup chambers, the kinetics in cell proliferation between cocultured MCs and MCs alone were essentially the same. Conditioned media derived from cocultures up to day 3 in a contact-dependent manner inhibited the 3H-thymidine uptake of MCs. From these results, it would thus appear that MCs proliferation is regulated by intercellular contact with ECs.




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