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- Title
Carnitine-mediated improved response to erythropoietin involves induction of haem oxygenase-1: studies in humans and in an animal model.
- Authors
Calò, Lorenzo A; Davis, Paul A; Pagnin, Elisa; Bertipaglia, Lara; Naso, Agostino; Piccoli, Antonio; Corradini, Robert; Spinello, Michela; Savica, Vincenzo; Dalla Libera, Luciano
- Abstract
Carnitine improves erythropoetin (EPO) response and anaemia in haemodialysis patients (HD); however, the mechanism(s) responsible remain unidentified. We have reported that carnitine induces haem oxygenase (HO)-1, which is an antioxidant and antiapoptotic that acts via pathways shared with EPO. Therefore carnitine's effect on these pathways may account for the improved EPO response. This study evaluates carnitine's effect on protein expression of HO-1 in unexplained EPO resistant HD. Carnitine's effect was assessed by HO-1 expression in patients and compared to its antiapoptotic effect via HO-1 induction in a rat model of carnitine-treated heart failure.
- Publication
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 3, p890
- ISSN
1460-2385
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndt/gfm707