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Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
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2/2020
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Collagen-driven remodeling of the intrahepatic duct wall in the PCK rat model of polycystic kidney disease-Caroli syndrome

Rithika Narayan
1
,
Jingsong Li
2
,
Anthony J. Pellicano
2
,
Itzhak D. Goldberg
2

1.
Department of Science, Elwood John H. Glenn High School, New York, USA
2.
Angion Biomedica Corp., New York, USA
Clin Exp HEPATOL 2020; 6, 2: 131–136
Online publish date: 2020/05/21
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Aim of the study
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by formation and expansion of cysts within the kidney. Caroli syndrome (CS) is characterized by cystic saccular dilatation of intrahepatic ducts. Kidney and liver images from a model of ADPKD-CS were evaluated to characterize remodeling of the cystically dilated intrahepatic duct wall and the renal cyst wall.

Material and methods
Archival digitized images from Masson’s trichrome-stained renal and Picrosirius red (PSR)-stained renal and hepatic cross-sections were sourced from the PCK rat model of ADPKD-CS, and age-matched Sprague-Dawley rats (wild-type). Cross-sectional areas and wall thicknesses of renal cysts and intrahepatic ducts were measured. Circularly polarized PSR microscopy was utilized to observe accumulation of collagen and identify its subtype.

Results
In the PCK rat model of ADPKD-CS, renal cysts were relatively thin-walled in comparison to intrahepatic ducts with renal cyst cross-sectional area to wall ratio 47-fold greater than the corresponding ratio in intrahepatic ducts. Increasing intrahepatic duct cross-sectional area was accompanied by a rapid and steep rise in wall thickness. There was a weak but significant direct correlation (r = 0.49, p = 0.037) between renal cyst cross-sectional area and wall thickness. Circularly polarized Picrosirius red microscopy revealed collagen I accumulation within the walls of dilated intrahepatic ducts but not renal cysts.

Conclusions
These data suggest that unlike renal cysts, cystically dilated intrahepatic ducts undergo collagen-driven wall remodeling in the PCK rat.

keywords:

Caroli syndrome, polycystic kidney, cyst, duct, collagen

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