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Localization of kallikrein in the human kidney was investigated by two markers: kallikrein-like activity and kallikrein antigenicity. Kallikrein-like activity was demonstrated enzyme-histochemically by using a synthetic substrate for kallikrein, pro-phe-arg-naphthyl-ester. Kallikrein antigenicity was demonstrated by the unlabelled antibody peroxidase-antiperoxidase method using an antiserum against human urinary kallikrein. The kallikrein-like activity was localized in the proximal tubular cells without any corresponding kallikrein antigenicity. Neither kallikrein-like activity nor kallikrein antigenicity was noticed in any other tubular cell. These results are contrary to those in the ductal cells of the human parotid gland where the kallikrein-like activity and the kallikrein antigenicity were identical in their locations. The peroxidase-antiperoxidase method revealed, for the first time, kallikrein antigenicity both in the interstitium and in the basement membrane region of Bowman's capsule and of all the tubules, possibly representing circulating glandular kallikreins deposited in the renal tissue. Thus, the present findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the urinary (renal) kallikreins are derived from circulating glandular kallikreins.
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Kimura, K., Moriya, H. Enzyme- and immuno-histochemical localization of kallikrein. Histochemistry 80, 443–448 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00495432
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