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Background
The Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events calculator (CRCRTR-MACE) estimates the burden of cardiovascular risk in renal transplant recipients (RTR). Our recent study of 95 RTR reported the 7-year median risk of cardiovascular events (CVE) to be 9.97%, ranging from 1.93 to 84.27%. Nearly a third (28.4%) of the cohort was above 20% risk for a CVE. Since interleukins (ILs) as part of the inflammatory response may play a role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease (CVD), we extended this study to identify which ILs are associated with high cardiovascular risk in this population.Methods
Twenty-two ILs were measured by multiplexed fluorescent bead-based immunoassay in 95 RTR and 56 normal controls. Stepwise analysis after multivariate determination of significant demographic and inflammatory variables was performed between the high and low-CVD risk groups (which were arbitrarily set at scores <10% and ≥20%, respectively). Normalized data was presented as mean ± SD and non-normalized data as median (minimum–maximum). Significance was measured at <0.05.Results
27.5% of the low-risk and 31.3% of the high-risk groups had mean IL levels above the 95 percentile of the normal control levels. In the non-parametric analysis IL-6, 9, 16, 17 and 33 were significantly higher in the high-risk group compared to the control. Univariate analysis (UVA) of the high-risk group identified IL-33 as the only IL that remained significantly higher than the control and low-risk groups (p = 0.000). The percentage of patients with IL-33 levels above the 90 percentile of control value in the low and high-risk groups were 15.6% and 52.0%, respectively (p<0.002). UVA of factors significant to high IL-33 levels included estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), while diabetes mellitus, serum phosphorus, microalbuminuria and age also remained significant in the multivariate analysis.Conclusion
Circulating IL-33 level is positively associated with high CRCRTR-MACE score. Diminished eGFR, age, diabetes, serum phosphorus and microalbuminurea demonstrate significant relationship with elevated IL-33 levels, supporting the possible pathognomonic role of IL-33 in the cardiovascular burden in RTR. 相似文献2.
Elbarbry FA Shoker AS 《Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences》2007,859(2):276-281
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Difference in the hydrophilic properties of mycophenolic acid metabolites makes it technically difficult to simultaneously determine their plasma levels in one analytical run. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for MPA ensures adequate MPA exposure levels to both prevent rejection and avoid related toxicity. One measure limitation for TDM for MPA is the availability of simple, rapid and reproducible method for determination of MPA derivatives. METHOD: Herein we report a single method to measure MPA and its metabolites using a gradient elution system in less than 10 min. We further tested applicability of our method in both stable and unstable renal transplant recipients with a wide range of levels. RESULTS: Intra- and inter-day imprecision were less than 8% and 10%, respectively. Accuracy of the estimated concentrations ranges from 90% to 108%. CONCLUSION: Collectively these data show that the new method is reasonably accurate and precise for the simultaneous determination of MPA and its metabolites in human plasma. 相似文献
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BACKGROUND:
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosomal disorder. It has three chromosomal patterns.AIM:
To determine the cytogenetic and comorbidity profiles of DS in the Genetic Unit of Mansoura University Children''s Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt.MATERIALS AND METHODS:
A retrospective analysis was performed on the case records of 712 cytogenetically diagnosed cases of DS at the Genetic Unit of Mansoura University Children''s Hospital, Egypt, during a 10-year period.RESULTS:
About 19% of the cases had one or more cardiac anomalies and about 8% were hypothyroid. Nondisjunction was the most common type of abnormality, followed by translocation and lastly mosaic: 96.1, 3.1, and 0.8%, respectively. Hypothyroidism was significantly more common in translocation and mosaic karyotypes than in the nondisjunction karyotypes. First and second birth orders were significantly higher in the translocation and mosaic groups than in the nondisjunction group. Mothers are significantly older at the index pregnancy in the nondisjunction group than in the other two groups. We compared our findings with those of previous studies.CONCLUSION:
Knowing karyotype of DS will help in genetic counseling of the parents. Wide-scale national community-based survey with DS registry could help in estimating the size of the problem. 相似文献4.
Arin E. Katrusiak Phyllis G. Paterson Huse Kamencic Ahmed Shoker Andrew W. Lyon 《Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences》2001,758(2):3853
A sensitive high-performance liquid chromatographic method for quantification of sulphydryl and disulfide amino acids in human plasma using ultra violet spectrophotometric detection was developed. Precolumn derivatization with 5,5′-dithio-bis-nitrobenzoic acid (DTNB) and an optional pre-derivatization reaction with dithiothreitol allowed both quantitative reduction of disulfides for measurement of total amino acid levels and the measurement of the reduced forms. A dynamic range of 500 nmol/l–750 μmol/l allowed the major analytes of interest to be quantified in plasma without sample dilution. The assay is a sensitive and precise method for the determination of sulphydryl and disulfide amino acids in plasma and cell extracts. 相似文献
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Shoker Ahmed S. Murabit Mohamed A. Georges Fawsy F. Qualtiere Louis F. Deneer Harry G. Prasad Kailash 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》1997,171(1-2):49-58
We studied the direct effect of reactive hydroxyl precursors and inhibitors on CD4+ T-cell function. We used hydrogen peroxide plus ferrous chloride as the hydroxyl radical-generating system and di-methyl sulphourea, di-methyl sulfoxide, pyrrolidine dithiocarbonate, methanol, and ethanol, at a noncytotoxic concentration, as inhibitors. The immune parameter studies were proliferation and interleukin-2 production by peripheral blood lymphocytes stimulated with anti-CD3 antibody, phytohemagglutinin and alloantigens; proliferation, interleukin-2 production and mRNA expression of interleukin-4 and interferon gamma by allogeneic CD4+ T-cell clones stimulated with alloantigens. The results show that lymphocytes produce significant amounts of reactive oxygen species as measured by malondialdehyde produced in cultures. The hydroxyl radical-generating system did not change any of the cellular responses studied although it doubled Malondialdehyde production. Hydroxyl radical scavengers signi tly inhibited all responses at doses that didn't significantly decrease malondialdehyde production. DNA analysis failed to show evidence for apoptosis. Conclusion: Hydroxyl radical scavengers inhibit lymphocyte mitogenesis by a process that is independent of scavenging hydroxyl radicals. 相似文献
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