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Effect of Glucose on Intercellular Junctions of Cultured Human Peritoneal Mesothelial Cells

TAKAFUMI ITO^*, NORIAKI YORIOKA^*, MASAO YAMAMOTO, KATSUKO KATAOKA and MICHIO YAMAKIDO^*

^* Department of Internal Medicine II, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Hiroshima, Japan.
Department of Anatomy II, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Hiroshima, Japan.

Correspondence to Dr. Noriaki Yorioka, Department of Internal Medicine II, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, 1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan. Phone: +81-82-257-5196, Fax: +81-82-255-7360; E-mail: nyorioka{at}mcai.med.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Abstract. During continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, the peritoneum is directly and continuously exposed to unphysiologic peritoneal dialysis fluid; the resulting mesothelial damage has been suggested to cause loss of ultrafiltration and dialysis efficacy. The present study investigated the effect of a high glucose concentration on cultured human peritoneal mesothelial cells to clarify the cause of decreased dialysis efficacy during prolonged peritoneal dialysis. High glucose caused a concentration-dependent decrease in cell proliferation, damage to the intercellular junctions, and excess production of transforming growth factor-ß (TGF-ß). The levels of intercellular junctional proteins (ZO-1, E-cadherin, and ß-catenin) were decreased, and immuno-staining by anti—ZO-1 and anti— ß-catenin antibodies became weaker and often discontinuous along the cell contour. Mannitol had similar but weaker effects at the same osmolality, and an anti—TGF-ß neutralizing antibody reduced the effects of high glucose. Therefore, these effects were induced not only by glucose itself but also by hyperosmolality and by a glucose-induced increase of TGF-ß. These findings suggest that the peritoneal mesothelium is damaged by prolonged peritoneal dialysis using high glucose dialysate and that impairment of the intercellular junctions of peritoneal mesothelial cells by high glucose dialysate induces peritoneal hyperpermeability and a progressive reduction in dialysis efficacy.

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