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Serum uromodulin—a marker of kidney function and renal parenchymal integrity
BACKGROUND: An ELISA to analyse uromodulin in human serum (sUmod) was developed, validated and tested for clinical applications. METHODS: We assessed sUmod, a very stable antigen, in controls, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 1–5, persons with autoimmune kidney diseases and recipien...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5837243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28206617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfw422 |
Sumario: | BACKGROUND: An ELISA to analyse uromodulin in human serum (sUmod) was developed, validated and tested for clinical applications. METHODS: We assessed sUmod, a very stable antigen, in controls, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 1–5, persons with autoimmune kidney diseases and recipients of a renal allograft by ELISA. RESULTS: Median sUmod in 190 blood donors was 207 ng/mL (women: men, median 230 versus 188 ng/mL, P = 0.006). sUmod levels in 443 children were 193 ng/mL (median). sUmod was correlated with cystatin C (r(s) = −0.862), creatinine (r(s) = −0.802), blood urea nitrogen (BUN) (r(s) = −0.645) and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)–cystatin C (r(s )= ( )0.862). sUmod was lower in systemic lupus erythematosus-nephritis (median 101 ng/mL), phospholipase-A2 receptor- positive glomerulonephritis (median 83 ng/mL) and anti-glomerular basement membrane positive pulmorenal syndromes (median 37 ng/mL). Declining sUmod concentrations paralleled the loss of kidney function in 165 patients with CKD stages 1–5 with prominent changes in sUmod within the ‘creatinine blind range’ (71–106 µmol/L). Receiver-operating characteristic analysis between non-CKD and CKD-1 was superior for sUmod (AUC 0.90) compared with eGFR (AUC 0.39), cystatin C (AUC 0.39) and creatinine (AUC 0.27). sUmod rapidly recovered from 0 to 62 ng/mL (median) after renal transplantation in cases with immediate graft function and remained low in delayed graft function (21 ng/mL, median; day 5–9: relative risk 1.5–2.9, odds ratio 1.5–6.4). Immunogold labelling disclosed that Umod is transferred within cytoplasmic vesicles to both the apical and basolateral plasma membrane. Umod revealed a disturbed intracellular location in kidney injury. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that sUmod is a novel sensitive kidney-specific biomarker linked to the structural integrity of the distal nephron and to renal function. |
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