Iron inhibits respiratory burst of peritoneal phagocytes in vitro.

Objective. This study examines the effects of iron ions Fe(3+) on the respiratory burst of phagocytes isolated from peritoneal effluents of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, as an in vitro model of iron overload in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Material and Methods.

The ability of HDL to inhibit VCAM-1 expression and oxidized LDL uptake is impaired in renal patients.

Objectives: This study examines the ability of HDL from hemodialysis (HD) and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients to suppress the expression of adhesion molecules in endothelial cells (ICAM-1, VCAM-1) and in monocytes (LFA-1, VLA-4) and to inhibit the uptake of oxidized LDL by macrophages.

Design And Methods: Gene expression and the uptake of oxidized LDL were determined in 12 HD patients, 12 CAPD patients and 14 healthy volunteers.

Results: HDL from renal patients were less effective than control lipoproteins in reducing VCAM-1 expression.

Sodium metavanadate affected control and streptozotocin-diabetic rat liver golgi complexes.

As we have observed previously, rat liver Golgi complexes are very useful cell organelle in investigating the effectiveness of various drugs with cytoprotective or normalizing activities in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes. The diabetes-associated biochemical and morphological alterations in the organelle were investigated in four groups of rats: control and STZ-diabetic (C and D groups) and compared with the same groups treated with 1.5 mM metavanadate administered as drinking solutions in 0.

LDL susceptibility to oxidation and HDL antioxidant capacity in patients with renal failure.

Objectives: This study examines the susceptibility to oxidation and the ability to stimulate reactive oxygen species of LDL from hemodialysis (HD) and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients. It was also designed to evaluate the antioxidant activity of HDL from uremic patients.

Design And Methods: Lipoprotein properties were determined in 28 HD patients, 30 CAPD patients and 30 control subjects by spectrophotometric, chemiluminescence and electrophoresis methods.

Sodium orthovanadate exerts influence on liver Golgi complexes from control and streptozotocin-diabetic rats.

The paper presents the effect of one-week 3mM sodium orthovanadate (Na3VO4) oral treatment of control and streptozotocin[STZ]-diabetic rats. The body weight decreased as compared with untreated control (C group) in both vanadate treated groups (C + V and D + V) and in diabetic untreated rats (D group)--in all cases p < 0.01.

Peritonitis-induced antitumor activity of peritoneal macrophages from uremic patients.

The macrophages belong to the effector cells of both nonspecific and specific immune response. These cells generally express little cytotoxicity unless activated. The present work was intended to determine if peritoneal macrophages collected from patients on Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) during episodes of peritonitis were active against human tumor cell lines without further in vitro stimulation.

Influence of vanadyl sulphate [VOSO4] on biochemical activity and morphology of control and streptozotocin-diabetic rat liver Golgi complexes.

The authors describe the influence of vanadyl sulphate on liver Golgi complexes in control and streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic rats. VOSO4, one of inorganic vanadium compounds widely used in animal models and human diabetes, acts as an insulin-mimetic drug and is relatively well known as a complex activated or inhibited on many enzymes involved in carbohydrate or lipid metabolic pathways. A relatively small in scope investigation was performed on subcellular levels, while changes of Golgi complexes under vanadium influence have not been described with the exception of our previous investigations with four organic derivatives.