Avaliação do metabolismo de glicosaminoglicanos em pacientes portadores de cistite intersticial / Evaluation of the metabolism of glycosaminoglycans in patients with interstitial cystitis

AUTOR(ES)

Marcos Lucon

FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

12/12/2012

RESUMO

Introduction: interstitial cystitis is a chronic disease of the lower urinary tract whose symptoms are: increased urinary frequency, nocturia, perineal or pelvic pain that worses with bladder filling and improves with urination. The pathogenesis is not fully known, but there is evidence that proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans lining the bladder urothelium can participate in its genesis. The loss of these protective compounds facilitate the contact of ions and solutes in the urine with deeper portions of bladder wall triggering and perpetuating a local inflammatory process. We investigated GAG behavior in urine and tissue (biopsy of bladder urothelium) of patients with IC/PBS and genuine stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in an attempt to better understand its metabolism. Patients and Methods: gene expression and glycosaminoglycans profile in tissue, and glycosaminoglycans profile in urine of 11 patients with interstitial cystitis were compared to 11 patients with pure urinary stress incontinence. Statistical analysis were performed using t Student test and Anova, considering significant when p<0,05. Results: patients with interstitial cystitis excreted lower concentration of glycosaminoglycans in urine when compared to those with pure urinary stress incontinence (respectively 0.45 + 0.11 x 0.62 + 0.13 mg/mg creatinine, p<0.05). However, there was no reduction of the content of glycosaminoglycans in the urothelium of both patients. The immunofluorescence study showed that patients with interstitial cystitis had a stronger staining of TGF-beta, decorin (a proteoglycan of chondroitin/dermatan sulfate), fibronectin and hyaluronic acid. We were able to indentify by real-time PCR lower gene expression of hyaluronic acid synthases and hyaluronidase in the urothelium of patients with interstitial cystitis. Conclusion: the results suggest that glycosaminoglycans may be related to the ongoing process of inflammation and remodeling of the dysfunctional urothelium that is present in the interstitial cystitis. The study of the gene expression may represent an alternative to understand the disease

ASSUNTO(S)

Ácido hialurônico cistite intersticial cystitis interstitial glicosaminoglicanas glycosaminoglycans hyaluronic acid

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