Journal
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 82, Issue 10, Pages 1114-1120Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2012.266
Keywords
acute kidney injury; acute renal failure; L-FABP; NGAL; volume depletion
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- KAKEN-HI [23790931, 22790780]
- MEXT, Japan
- Takeda Science Foundation, Japan
- Asahi Kasei Kuraray Medical
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23790931, 24390212, 22790780] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Prerenal acute kidney injury (AKI) is thought to be a reversible loss of renal function without structural damage. Although prerenal and intrinsic AKI frequently coexist in clinical situations, serum creatinine and urine output provide no information to support their differentiation. Recently developed biomarkers reflect tubular epithelial injury; therefore, we evaluated urinary biomarker levels in an adult mixed intensive care unit (ICU) cohort of patients who had been clinically evaluated as having prerenal AKI. Urinary L-type fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP), neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), interleukin-18 (IL-18), N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG), and albumin in patients with prerenal AKI showed modest but significantly higher concentrations than in patients with non-AKI. We also conducted a proof-of-concept experiment to measure urinary biomarker excretion in prerenal AKI caused by volume depletion. Compared with cisplatinum and ischemia-reperfusion models in mice, volume depletion in mice caused a modest secretion of L-FABP and NGAL into urine with more sensitive response of L-FABP than that of NGAL. Although no histological evidence of structural damage was identified by light microscopy, partial kidney hypoxia was found by pimonidazole incorporation in the volume depletion model. Thus, our study suggests that new AKI biomarkers can detect mild renal tubular damage in prerenal acute kidney injury. Kidney International (2012) 82, 1114-1120; doi:10.1038/ki.2012.266; published online 1 August 2012
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