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Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Vol 5, S54-S58, Copyright © 1994 by American Society of Nephrology

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Hypercalciuria: lessons from studies of genetic hypercalciuric rats

MJ Favus
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, IL 60637.

Human idiopathic hypercalciuria (IH) is a common cause of hypercalciuria that contributes to calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis. The disorder is characterized by normocalcemia, increased intestinal Ca absorption, and normal or elevated circulating 1,25(OH)2D3. Intestinal Ca hyperabsorption, which is a source of excess urine Ca excretion, may result from either a primary increase in renal 1,25(OH)2D3 production; a primary, vitamin D-independent defect in enterocyte regulation of Ca transport; or a secondary increase in 1,25(OH)2D3 production in response to a defect in renal tubular Ca reabsorption. Breeding male and female Sprague Dawley rats with spontaneous hypercalciuria has resulted in offspring with hypercalciuria, increased intestinal Ca absorption, and normal serum 1,25(OH)2D3. In male IH rats, vitamin D receptor (VDR) content measured by saturation binding and western blotting revealed a twofold increase in VDR number in the duodenum, kidney cortex, and splenic monocytes. The molecular basis for the increase in VDR appears not to be due to increased VDR gene expression, but may result from increased efficiency of translation of the VDR message or prolongation of the half-life of VDR. Comparable migration of normal and IH intestinal VDR on western blots and of intestinal VDR mRNA on northern blots suggests that the abundant VDR in IH rat intestine is not a mutation of the wild-type VDR. These observations strongly suggest that, in IH rats, normal serum 1,25(OH)2D3 and increased VDR results in increased VDR-1,25(OH)2D3 complexes and enhanced biologic actions of 1,25(OH)2D3, including increased intestinal Ca transport. IH in rats may be the first genetic disorder due to a pathologic increase in the VDR.


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