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To elucidate the role of apoptosis and cell desquamation in the repair phase of acute tubular necrosis, morphological findings after 60 min ischaemia were investigated in rats. A morphometric analysis of the cell proliferation and of the epithelial cellularity of reconstructing tubules was performed. The kinetics of apoptosis and cell desquamation were also examined. Ischaemia and reperfusion injury resulted in widespread necrosis of tubules at day 1. Subsequently, a regenerative epithelial hyperplasia took place in the aarly stage. The most marked increase in cellularlity in the damaged tubules was on day 6, when the tubules became lined by hyperplastic epithelial cells with papillary clusters. The number of papillary clusters decrease up to day 8, and during this period many desquamated cells from the clusters were observed in the tubular lumen. In the later stage, hyperplastic epithelial cells were reduced to their original cellularity and during this period the number of apoptotic cells obviously increased, while the damaged tubules were reconstructed. We conclude that epithelial over-production occurs in the early phase after tubular necrosis, and excess hyperplastic epithelial cells regress during the repair process by cell desquamation and apoptosis, both of which are essential for the recovery of the original tubular structure.
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Shimizu, A., Yamanaka, N. Apoptosis and cell desquamation in repair process of ischemic tubular necrosis. Virchows Archiv B Cell Pathol 64, 171–180 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02915110
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