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  • Title: Intercellular junctions in podocytes of the nephrotic glomerulus as seen with freeze-fracture.
    Author: Pricam C, Humbert F, Perrelet A, Amherdt M, Orci L.
    Journal: Lab Invest; 1975 Sep; 33(3):209-18. PubMed ID: 1160342.
    Abstract:
    The glomeruli of rats rendered nephrotic by administration of aminonucleoside of puromycin were studied with the freeze-fracture technique. The alterations of the podocytes consisted of a progressive blunting of the foot processes and of the disappearance of the extracellular space normally present between the foot processes at the level of the slit pore. In parallel with the closure of the extracellular space, fracture faces of the plasma membrane of the latered podocytes revealed the presence of peculiar membrane differentiations represented mainly by irregular chains of membrane-associated particles in the fracture face A and by variegated grooves in the fracture face B. The presence of grooves in fracture face B indicates that the chains of particles in fracture face A are likely to be tight junctions rather than linear gap junctions. However, since the presence of continuous ridges is exceptional, it is suggested that the tight junctions are the "leaky" -type and that the podocytes many have only limited capacities for assembling junctions of the "tight" -type.
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