Arginine as an exacerbating factor for glomerulonephritis in rats fed a methionine-threonine-supplemented low casein diet
2001
Nihei, T. (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu (Japan)) | Arai, K. | Miura, Y. | Yagasaki, K.
We previously demonstrated that a methioninethreonine-supplemented low (8.5%) casein diet (8.5CMT) reduced symptoms such as proteinuria in nephritic rats without severe protein malnutrition. In this study, we examined whether or not L-arginine supplementation to 8.5CMT would exacerbate proteinuria and other symptoms in nephritic rats. Male Wistar rats with glomerulonephritis induced by a single intravenous injection of nephrotoxic serum were fed either a 20% casein diet (control), 8.5% casein diet, 8.5CMT, or L-arginine-supplemented 8.5CMT (8.5CMTA) for 16 days. The 8.5CMTA, as compared with the 8.5CMT, aggravated proteinuria and glomerulonephritis. Administration of L-N**G-nitroarginine methyl ester, an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase, to 8.5CMTA-fed nephritic rats by drinking water for 14 days canceled the adverse effect of L-arginine on proteinuria and histopathological damage in glomeruli. These results suggest that the supplementation of L-arginine makes exacerbation via nitric oxide production in glomerulonephritis.
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