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Such increased renal sensitivity to Stx in children, if it does indeed exist, could be due to a wide variety of factors.
An autopsy study determined that total kidney Gb3 levels were lower in infants than in adults (although only two individuals under 19 years of age were examined) [ 5 ] . Another study using immunostaining of biopsy samples found that glomeruli from infants (under two years of age), but not from older children or adults, bound Stx [ 6 ] . This provocative finding, albeit involving a relatively small sample size and patients who often had glomerulopathies, provided a potential explanation for augmented glomerular Stx sensitivity in young children.
Traditional animal models, such as mice, rats, rabbits or pigs do not develop typical renal disease when given either Stx or E. coli 0157:H7 [ 14 ] . Further, animal models that most closely reflect human HUS are only in the early stages of development [ 14 ] . Hence, the cell culture system remains the most reasonable means to assess an effect of sex steroids on renal cell Stx-1 responsiveness; such systems have clearly been demonstrated to be responsive to sex steroids (e.g.
inflammatory cytokines) renal Stx responsiveness.
Numerous factors could be involved in age-related Stx sensitivity, including differences in the degree of enteric invasion by Stx-producing E. coli ; in Stx transport across the gut, in circulating red or white blood cell toxin binding and delivery to the kidney, in the immune response to Stx, in renal Stx binding, and/or in intrinsic or cofactor-regulated (e.g.
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