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N epsilon-(carboxymethyl)lysine in blood from maintenance hemodialysis patients may contribute to dialysis-related amyloidosis.

BACKGROUND: Recent studies demonstrated not only that advanced glycation end product could be found in amyloid tissue from patient with dialysis related amyloidosis, but also that amyloid beta2-microglobulin was modified with N(epsilon)-(carboxymethyl)lysine ( CML). We wanted to determine if CML could be a biomarker in these patients. METHODS: To raise polyclonal anti-carboxymethyllysine antibody, human serum albumin was carboxymethylated by glyoxylic acid and was immunized to rabbits as antigen. Carboxymethyllysine-hemoglobin (CML-Hb) levels were measured by the dot blotting method using this antibody. RESULTS: The levels of CML-Hb were 6.68 +/- 3.10 nmol CML/mg Hb in nondiabetic hemodialysis patients (N = 70), 6.39 +/- 3.43 nmol CML/mg Hb in diabetic hemodialysis patient (N = 21), and 3.13 +/- 0.88 nmol CML/mg Hb in 47 healthy volunteers. For clinical signs of dialysis-related amyloidosis, 70 nondiabetic hemodialysis patients were scored according Gejyo's criteria. The CML-Hb levels in patients with a high amyloid score as well as a low amyloid score were significantly higher than in patients with negative amyloid score (8.89 +/- 3.53 nmol CMLmg Hb, 7.28 +/- 2.32 nmol CML/mg Hb vs. 5.11 +/- 2.09 nmol CML/mg Hb, P < 0.001, P < 0.05). Furthermore, the CML-Hb levels correlated significantly with serum values of the methylguanidine over creatinine ratio and hyaluronate. CONCLUSIONS: We suggest that CML-Hb is increased in blood from patients on maintenance hemodialysis and is thus a potential biomarker of oxidative damage in these patients. Moreover, CML-modification of protein may play a pathogenic role in the development of dialysis related amyloidosis.[1]

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  1. N epsilon-(carboxymethyl)lysine in blood from maintenance hemodialysis patients may contribute to dialysis-related amyloidosis. Motomiya, Y., Oyama, N., Iwamoto, H., Uchimura, T., Maruyama, I. Kidney Int. (1998) [Pubmed]
 
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