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J. bras. nefrol ; 33(2): 261-267, abr.-jun. 2011. tab
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-593907

ABSTRACT

A taxa de filtração glomerular é o principal indicador de função renal em indivíduos saudáveis e doentes. Apesar de todo o desenvolvimento da medicina em nossos dias, ainda há dificuldade para definir-se essa taxa com precisão na prática diária. Marcadores precoces de lesão renal são importantes, porque a taxa de filtração glomerular se reduz antes do aparecimento dos sintomas ou sinais de insuficiência renal. A cistatina C tem sido apontada como uma alternativa, mas ainda não foi testada em muitas condições. Vantagens e desvantagens desse marcador foram aqui discutidas. Embora a determinação sérica da cistatina C comece a ser usada na prática clínica em todo o mundo, ainda não foram completamente esclarecidas suas limitações ou as situações em que está de fato indicada sua aplicação; por outro lado, a creatinina sérica (e sua depuração) é um marcador laboratorial facilmente acessível, de baixo custo, cujas limitações são bem conhecidas, que pode ser usado de forma rotineira para avaliação de função renal.


Glomerular filtration rate is the main marker of renal function in healthy in>dividuals and patients. Despite incontestable advances in medicine, it is still difficult to define precisely this test in clinical practice. Early markers of renal lesion are important, because glomerular filtration rate usually decreases before the first chronic renal failure symptoms or signs appear. Cystatin C has been pointed as an alternative, but it was not tested in many diseases. Advantages and disadvantages of this marker are discussed. Although serum cystatin C determination is increasingly being used in clinical practice worldwide, its limitations as well as the conditions its use is in fact indicated are not adequately established; on the other hand serum creatinine (and creatinine clearance) is an easily available and low cost laboratory marker with well-known limitations that can be used routinely in the assessment of renal function.


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Humans , Cystatins/analysis , Cystatins/biosynthesis , Cystatins/therapeutic use , Creatinine/analysis , Kidney Failure, Chronic/therapy , Glomerular Filtration Rate/physiology
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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 89(1): 81-5, jan.-mar. 1994. ilus, graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-155812

ABSTRACT

Rats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi Y strain exhibited hypertrophy of the submandibular gland at 18 days after infection.SDS-PAGE of infected rats saliva revealed the presence of an additional band with an apparent molecular weight of about 13KDa. Electrophoresis of protein salivaand immunochemical analysis with antibody against rat cystatin S confirmed that the protein was identical to that induced by beta adrenergic stimulation


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Animals , Male , Rats , Cystatins/analysis , Chagas Disease/pathology , Submandibular Gland/pathology , Blotting, Western , Cystatins/biosynthesis , Submandibular Gland/chemistry , Hypertrophy , Rats, Inbred Strains , Saliva/chemistry
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