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1Carol Davila Clinical Hospital for Nephrology, Bucharest, Romania. mandache.eugen@yahoo.com
Abstract:
It is currently considered that hump dense deposits developed during an acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis become finally dissolute by three hypothetical mechanisms: loosing their electron density, internalization and processing by podocytes and by incorporation in the glomerular basal lamina (GBM). Analyzing ultrastructurally the association of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and hump deposits, we emphasized features endorsing the hypothesis that the immune complexes of dense deposits are discharged in the circulation under the leukocytes activity. The active polymorphonuclear cells are melting the GBM in the area of contact by complement activation and by the NAPlr bound plasmin. The reversed flow of immune complexes from humps towards the blood circulation leaves fading, wrinkled shaped humps, before total dissolution.
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