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Differential effects of dialysis and ultrafiltrate from individuals with CKD, with or without diabetes, on platelet phosphatidylserine externalization

Lookup NU author(s): Emerita Professor Sally Marshall, Dr Michael Thompson

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Abstract

Individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and/or diabetes mellitus (DM) are at increased risk of cardiovascular events and have elevated externalization of phosphatidylserine (PS; which propagates thrombus formation) in a small subpopulation of platelets. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of 1) removing uremic toxins by hemodialysis on PS externalization in patients with either CKD or CKD and DM and 2) ultrafiltrate (UF) from these individuals on PS externalization in healthy platelets. PS externalization was quantified by a fluorescence-activated cell sorter using annexin V in platelet-rich plasma. PS externalization was elevated threefold in CKD patients and returned to basal values during 3-h hemodialysis. In contrast, it was elevated fivefold in individuals with CKD and DM and was still threefold above control after 3-h treatment. UF significantly increased PS externalization in a small subpopulation of platelets from healthy controls. The effect of UF from individuals with CKD and DM was significantly greater than that from patients with CKD alone, and the responses were partially inhibited by the protein kinase Cδ (PKCδ) inhibitor rottlerin and the 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)2A/2C receptor antagonist ritanserin. The data suggest that uremic toxins present in UF mediate PS externalization in a small subpopulation of platelets, at least in part, via the 5-HT2A/2C receptor and PKCδ and demonstrate that DM further enhances platelet PS externalization in CKD patients undergoing hemodialysis. This may explain, at least in part, the additional increase in vascular damage observed in CKD patients when DM is present. Copyright © 2008 the American Physiological Society.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Wang Y, Beck W, Deppisch R, Marshall SM, Hoenich NA, Thompson MG

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology

Year: 2008

Volume: 294

Issue: 1

Pages: F220-F228

ISSN (print): 1931-857X

ISSN (electronic): 1522-1466

Publisher: American Physiological Society

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00279.2007

DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00279.2007

PubMed id: 17670899


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