Challenges of reducing protein-bound uremic toxin levels in chronic kidney disease and end stage renal disease

M Faria, MN de Pinho - Translational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the worldwide population is currently
estimated between 11% and 13%. Adequate renal clearance is compromised in these …

Adsorption-and displacement-based approaches for the removal of protein-bound uremic toxins

FSC Rodrigues, M Faria - Toxins, 2023 - mdpi.com
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients rely on renal replacement therapies to survive.
Hemodialysis (HD), the most widely applied treatment, is responsible for the removal of …

Removal of protein-bound uremic toxins during hemodialysis using a binding competitor

M Madero, KB Cano, I Campos, X Tao… - Clinical Journal of the …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Results We studied 18 patients on maintenance hemodialysis: age 36±11 years old, ten
women, and mean vintage of 37±37 months. Compared with during the preinfusion period …

Self-assembled membrane composed of amyloid-like proteins for efficient size-selective molecular separation and dialysis

F Yang, F Tao, C Li, L Gao, P Yang - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The design and scalable construction of robust ultrathin protein membranes with tunable
separation properties remain a key challenge in chemistry and materials science. Here, we …

Improved dialytic removal of protein-bound uraemic toxins with use of albumin binding competitors: an in vitro human whole blood study

X Tao, S Thijssen, P Kotanko, CH Ho, M Henrie… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Protein-bound uraemic toxins (PBUTs) cause various deleterious effects in end-stage kidney
disease patients, because their removal by conventional haemodialysis (HD) is severely …

Removal of protein-bound uremic toxins using binding competitors in hemodialysis: a narrative review

V Maheshwari, X Tao, S Thijssen, P Kotanko - Toxins, 2021 - mdpi.com
Removal of protein-bound uremic toxins (PBUTs) during conventional dialysis is insufficient.
PBUTs are associated with comorbidities and mortality in dialysis patients. Albumin is the …

Using binding competitors of albumin to promote the removal of protein-bound uremic toxins in hemodialysis: hope or pipe dream?

N Florens, D Yi, L Juillard, CO Soulage - Biochimie, 2018 - Elsevier
Chronic kidney disease is associated with the accumulation of a large range of uremic
retention solutes as referred to as uremic toxins. Some of these compounds belong to the …

Improved dialysis removal of protein-bound uremic toxins by salvianolic acids

J Li, Y Wang, X Xu, W Cao, Z Shen, N Wang, J Leng… - Phytomedicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Indoxyl sulfate (IS) and p-cresyl sulfate (pCS) are two key protein-bound uremic
toxins that accumulate in patients with end-stage renal disease. IS and pCS cannot be …

Gut-derived uremic toxins in CKD: an Improved Approach for the evaluation of serum indoxyl sulfate in clinical practice

G Caggiano, L Amodio, A Stasi, NA Colabufo… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the past years, indoxyl sulfate has been strongly implicated in kidney disease progression
and contributed to cardiovascular morbidity. Moreover, as a result of its elevated albumin …

Multi-sites polycyclodextrin adsorbents for removal of protein-bound uremic toxins combining with hemodialysis

J Li, L Han, J **e, S Liu, L Jia - Carbohydrate polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
Accumulation of protein-bound uremic toxins (PBUTs) has a high incidence in the blood of
hemodialysis-treated patients with chronic kidney disease. Development of adsorbent for the …