Microheterogeneity of urinary albumin and tubular proteinuria in juvenile diabetes mellitus.

Autor: Ries, Martin, Schärer, Karl, Wartha, Reinhard, Schmidt, Hildgund, Gekle, Dieter
Zdroj: Pediatric Nephrology; Sep1991, Vol. 5 Issue 5, p582-586, 5p
Abstrakt: We studied differential urinary albumin excretion by a double one-dimensional gel electrophoresis with decyl sodium sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the first, and isoelectric focusing in the second dimension in 37 diabetic children and 20 healthy subjects. In addition, total proteins, albumin, β-microglobulin and molecular size distribution of urinary proteins were measured. the latter using sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Whilst albuminuria was not significantly different from controls we found an increased microheterogeneity of urinary albumin in 38% of patients. In addition, low molecular weight protein ( P<0.05) and β-microglobulin excretion ( P<0.01) were elevated. It is suggested that the appearance of highly heterogenous albumin in the pI range of 5.3-5.9 is the result of a decreased tubular reabsorption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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