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The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine ; : 320-327, 2011.
Article in English | WPRIM | ID: wpr-35156

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BACKGROUND/AIMS: We assessed changes in hemodynamic and arterial stiffness parameters following reductions of dialysate calcium concentrations in patients undergoing hemodialysis. METHODS: In this prospective study, 20 patients on maintenance hemodialysis (10 females, 10 males) with dialysate calcium concentrations of 1.75 mmol/L were enrolled. At the start of the study, the dialysate calcium level was lowered to 1.50 mmol/L. Serial changes in biochemical, hemodynamic, and arterial stiffness parameters, including pulse wave velocity (PWV) and augmentation index (AIx), were assessed every 2 months for 6 months. We also examined changes in the calcification-inhibitory protein, serum fetuin-A. RESULTS: During the 6-month study period, serum total calcium and ionized calcium decreased consistently (9.5 +/- 1.0 to 9.0 +/- 0.7, p = 0.002 vs. 1.3 +/- 0.1 to 1.1 +/- 0.1, p = 0.035). Although no apparent changes in blood pressure were observed, heart-femoral PWW (hf-PWV) and AIx showed significant improvement (p = 0.012, 0.043, respectively). Repeated-measures ANOVA indicated a significant effect of lowering dialysate calcium on hf-PWV (F = 4.58, p = 0.004) and AIx (F = 2.55, p = 0.049). Accompanying the change in serum calcium, serum fetuin-A levels significantly increased (95.8 +/- 45.8 pmol/mL at baseline to 124.9 +/- 82.2 pmol/mL at 6 months, p = 0.043). CONCLUSIONS: Lowering dialysate calcium concentration significantly improved arterial stiffness parameters, which may have been associated with upregulation of serum fetuin-A.


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Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Analysis of Variance , Ankle Brachial Index , Arteries/drug effects , Biomarkers/blood , Blood Pressure/drug effects , Calcium/administration & dosage , Compliance , Hemodialysis Solutions/administration & dosage , Prospective Studies , Pulsatile Flow/drug effects , Renal Dialysis , Republic of Korea , Time Factors , Treatment Outcome , alpha-2-HS-Glycoprotein/metabolism
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Experimental & Molecular Medicine ; : 427-435, 2011.
Article in English | WPRIM | ID: wpr-102680

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Preeclapsia (PE) is a severe disorder that occurs during pregnancy, leading to maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. PE affects about 3-8% of all pregnancies. In this study, we conducted liquid chromatographymass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to analyze serum samples depleted of the six most abundant proteins from normal and PE-affected pregnancies to profile serum proteins. A total of 237 proteins were confidently identified with < 1% false discovery rate from the two groups of duplicate analysis. The expression levels of those identified proteins were compared semiquantitatively by spectral counting. To further validate the candidate proteins with a quantitative mass spectrometric method, selective reaction monitoring (SRM) and enzyme linked immune assay (ELISA) of serum samples collected from pregnant women with severe PE (n = 8) or normal pregnant women (n = 5) was conducted. alpha2-HS-glycoprotein (AHSG), retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) and alpha-1-microglobulin/bikunin (AMBP) and Insulin like growth factor binding protein, acid labile subunit (IGFBP-ALS) were confirmed to be differentially expressed in PE using SRM (P < 0.05). Among these proteins, AHSG was verified by ELISA and showed a statistically significant increase in PE samples when compared to controls.


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Adult , Female , Humans , Pregnancy , Alpha-Globulins/metabolism , Amino Acid Sequence , Biomarkers/blood , Blood Proteins/analysis , Case-Control Studies , Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins/blood , Molecular Sequence Data , Pre-Eclampsia/blood , Proteome/analysis , Retinol-Binding Proteins, Plasma/metabolism , alpha-2-HS-Glycoprotein/metabolism
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