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Assessment of urinary microparticles in normotensive patients with type 1 diabetes

Overview of attention for article published in Diabetologia, December 2016
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Title
Assessment of urinary microparticles in normotensive patients with type 1 diabetes
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Diabetologia, December 2016
DOI 10.1007/s00125-016-4190-2
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Yuliya Lytvyn, Fengxia Xiao, Christopher R. J. Kennedy, Bruce A. Perkins, Heather N. Reich, James W. Scholey, David Z. Cherney, Dylan Burger

Abstract

Assessment of urinary extracellular vesicles including exosomes and microparticles (MPs) is an emerging approach for non-invasive detection of renal injury. We have previously reported that podocyte-derived MPs are increased in diabetic mice in advance of albuminuria. Here, we hypothesised that type 1 diabetes and acute hyperglycaemia would increase urinary podocyte MP levels in uncomplicated diabetes. In this post hoc exploratory analysis, we examined archived urine samples from normoalbuminuric patients with uncomplicated type 1 diabetes studied under clamped euglycaemia and hyperglycaemia and compared with healthy controls. Urinary vesicles were assessed by electron microscopy and nanoparticle tracking while podocyte MPs were assessed by flow cytometry. Neither vesicle size nor total number were significantly altered in type 1 diabetes or acute hyperglycaemia. By contrast, urinary podocyte MP levels were higher in type 1 diabetes (0.47 [0.00-3.42] MPs/μmol creatinine [Cr]) compared with healthy controls (0.00 [0.00-0.00] MPs/μmol Cr, p < 0.05) and increased under hyperglycaemic clamp (0.36 [0.00-4.15] MPs/μmol Cr during euglycaemia vs 2.70 [0.00-15.91] MPs/μmol Cr during hyperglycaemia, p < 0.05). Levels of urinary albumin to creatinine ratio and nephrin (surrogates of podocyte injury) were unchanged by type 1 diabetes or acute hyperglycaemia. Taken together, our data show that urinary podocyte MP levels are higher in patients with type 1 diabetes in advance of changes in other biomarkers (albuminuria, nephrin). Examination of podocyte MPs may serve as an early biomarker of glomerular injury in uncomplicated type 1 diabetes.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 59 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 15%
Student > Master 8 14%
Student > Bachelor 7 12%
Researcher 7 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 15 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 22 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 March 2017.
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#2,454,285
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#1,260
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#46,936
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#27
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