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  • Title: Effect of diabetes and Sorbinil treatment on phospholipid metabolism in rat glomeruli.
    Author: Cohen MP, Klepser H, Cua E.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1986 Apr 15; 876(2):226-32. PubMed ID: 3006784.
    Abstract:
    To explore the hypothesis that changes in membrane phospholipids accompany tissue myo-inositol depletion and reduced (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity in diabetes, we examined phospholipid concentrations in glomeruli isolated from control and streptozotocin-diabetic rats and the effect of diabetes on myo-[3H]inositol incorporation in vitro into glomerular phosphatidylinositol. Since the aldose reductase inhibitor, Sorbinil, prevents the fall in myo-inositol and the decrease in (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity associated with diabetes, phospholipid and phosphatidylinositol content were also examined in glomeruli isolated from Sorbinil-treated diabetic rats. Total phospholipids (microgram phosphorus/mg dry weight) did not differ in the three groups of animals. The concentration of phosphatidylcholine was elevated in preparations from diabetic rats, both untreated and Sorbinil-treated. Phosphatidylethanolamine was reduced in glomeruli from Sorbinil-treated rats. Neither acute experimental diabetes nor Sorbinil treatment produced detectable changes in the glomerular concentration of phosphatidylinositol. In vitro incubations with glomeruli isolated from control and diabetic animals resulted in increased levels of incorporation of myo-[3H]inositol into phospholipids of diabetic glomeruli. The specific activity of [3H]phosphatidylinositol in glomeruli from diabetic rats was significantly greater than that in control samples. The findings do not support the postulate invoking correspondent changes in myo-inositol and phosphatidylinositol contents as contributory to diminished glomerular (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity in diabetes, but are compatible with depletion of glomerular intracellular myo-inositol in diabetes.
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