This article is about the endogenous erythropoietin protein. For the erythropoietin drug, see Epoetin alfa.
Erythropoietin |
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Available structures |
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1BUY, 1CN4, 1EER
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EPO; EP; MVCD2 |
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OMIM: 133170 MGI: 95407 HomoloGene: 624 ChEMBL: 5837 GeneCards: EPO Gene |
Gene Ontology |
Molecular function |
• erythropoietin receptor binding
• hormone activity
• protein binding
• protein kinase activator activity
• eukaryotic cell surface binding
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Cellular component |
• extracellular region
• extracellular space
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Biological process |
• apoptotic process
• signal transduction
• embryo implantation
• aging
• blood circulation
• positive regulation of cell proliferation
• response to salt stress
• negative regulation of sodium ion transport
• peptidyl-serine phosphorylation
• negative regulation of ion transmembrane transporter activity
• response to lipopolysaccharide
• response to vitamin A
• cellular response to stress
• response to testosterone stimulus
• positive regulation of tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat5 protein
• hemoglobin biosynthetic process
• negative regulation of apoptotic process
• erythrocyte maturation
• response to estrogen stimulus
• positive regulation of neuron differentiation
• positive regulation of DNA replication
• positive regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent
• positive regulation of Ras protein signal transduction
• response to axon injury
• response to electrical stimulus
• response to hyperoxia
• regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter in response to hypoxia
• response to interleukin-1
• cellular response to hypoxia
• cellular hyperosmotic response
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2056 |
13856 |
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Ensembl |
ENSG00000130427 |
ENSMUSG00000029711 |
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UniProt |
P01588 |
P07321 |
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RefSeq (mRNA) |
NM_000799.2 |
NM_007942.2 |
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RefSeq (protein) |
NP_000790.2 |
NP_031968.1 |
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Location (UCSC) |
Chr 7:
100.32 – 100.32 Mb |
Chr 5:
137.48 – 137.53 Mb |
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Erythropoietin, also known as erythropoetin or erthropoyetin (/ɨˌrɪθrɵˈpɔɪ.ɨtɨn/, /ɨˌrɪθrɵˈpɔɪtən/, and /ɨˌriːθrɵ-/) or EPO, is a glycoprotein hormone that controls erythropoiesis, or red blood cell production. It is a cytokine (protein signaling molecule) for erythrocyte (red blood cell) precursors in the bone marrow. Human EPO has a molecular weight of 34,000.
Also called hematopoietin or hemopoietin, it is produced by interstitial fibroblasts in the kidney in close association with peritubular capillary and tubular epithelial cells. It is also produced in perisinusoidal cells in the liver. While liver production predominates in the fetal and perinatal period, renal production is predominant during adulthood. Erythropoietin is the hormone that regulates red blood cell production. It also has other known biological functions. For example, erythropoietin plays an important role in the brain's response to neuronal injury.[1] EPO is also involved in the wound healing process.[2]
When exogenous EPO is used as a performance-enhancing drug, it is classified as an erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA). Exogenous EPO can often be detected in blood, due to slight difference from the endogenous protein, for example in features of posttranslational modification.
Contents
- 1 Function
- 1.1 Primary role in red blood cell production
- 1.2 Secondary roles
- 2 Mechanism of action
- 3 Synthesis and regulation
- 4 Medical uses
- 5 Available forms
- 6 Blood doping
- 7 History
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
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Function
Primary role in red blood cell production
Erythropoietin is an essential hormone for red cell production. Without it, definitive erythropoiesis, the process of red cell production, does not take place. Under hypoxic conditions, the kidney will produce and secrete erythropoietin to increase the production of red blood cells by targeting CFU-E, pro-erythroblast and basophilic erythroblast subsets in the differentiation. Erythropoietin has its primary effect on red blood cell progenitors and precursors (which are found in the bone marrow in humans) by promoting their survival through protecting these cells from apoptosis.
Erythropoietin is the primary erythropoietic factor that cooperates with various other growth factors (e.g., IL-3, IL-6, glucocorticoids, and SCF) involved in the development of erythroid lineage from multipotent progenitors. The burst forming unit-erythroid (BFU-E) cells start erythropoietin receptor expression and are sensitive to erythropoietin. Subsequent stage, the colony forming unit-erythroid (CFU-E), expresses maximal erythropoietin receptor density and is completely dependent on erythropoietin for further differentiation. Precursors of red cells, the pro-erythroblasts and basophilic erythroblasts also express erythropoietin receptor and are therefore affected by it.
Secondary roles
Erythropoietin has a range of actions including vasoconstriction-dependent hypertension, stimulating angiogenesis, and inducing proliferation of smooth muscle fibers. It has also been shown that erythropoietin can increase iron absorption by suppressing the hormone hepcidin.[3]
EPO also affects neuronal protection during hypoxic conditions (stroke, etc.).[4] Trials on human subjects are not yet reported; if proven to be a viable treatment of heart attack and stroke patients, it could improve the outcome and quality of life. The reasoning behind such a proposal is that EPO levels of 100x of the baseline have been detected in brain as a natural response to (primarily) hypoxic damage.[5] This and other research demonstrate the role of natural hormones in the healing process. (growth hormone and oxytocin also improve healing process).[6]
Mechanism of action
Erythropoietin has been shown to exert its effects by binding to the erythropoietin receptor (EpoR).[7][8]
EPO is highly glycosylated (40% of total molecular weight), with half-life in blood around 5 hours. EPO's half-life may vary between endogenous and various recombinant versions. Additional glycosylation or other alterations of EPO via recombinant technology have led to the increase of EPO's stability in blood (thus requiring less frequent injections). EPO binds to the erythropoietin receptor on the red cell progenitor surface and activates a JAK2 signaling cascade. Erythropoietin receptor expression is found in a number of tissues such as the bone marrow and peripheral/central nervous tissue. In bloodstream, red cells themselves do not express erythropoietin receptor, and therefore cannot respond to EPO. However, indirect dependence of red cell longevity in the blood on plasma erythropoietin levels has been reported, a process termed neocytolysis.
Synthesis and regulation
Erythropoietin levels in blood are quite low in the absence of anemia, at around 10 mU/mL. However, in hypoxic stress, EPO production may increase a 1000-fold, reaching 10,000 mU/mL of blood. EPO is produced mainly by peritubular capillary lining cells of the renal cortex; which are highly specialized epithelial-like cells. It is synthesized by renal peritubular cells in adults, with a small amount being produced in the liver.[9][10] Regulation is believed to rely on a feed-back mechanism measuring blood oxygenation.[11] Constitutively synthesized transcription factors for EPO, known as hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs), are hydroxylated and proteosomally digested in the presence of oxygen.
Medical uses
Main article: Epoetin alfa
Erythropoietins available for use as therapeutic agents are produced by recombinant DNA technology in cell culture, and include Epogen/Procrit (epoetin alfa) and Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa); they are used in treating anemia resulting from chronic kidney disease and myelodysplasia from the treatment of cancer (chemotherapy and radiation), but include boxed warnings of increased risk of death, myocardial infarction, stroke, venous thromboembolism, tumor recurrence, and other severe off target effects.[12]
Available forms
Recombinant EPO has a variety of glycosylation patterns giving rise to alfa, beta, delta, and omega forms:
- epoetin alfa:
- Darbepoetin (Aranesp)[13]
- Epocept (Lupin pharma)
- Nanokine (Nanogen Pharmaceutical biotechnology, Vietnam
- Epofit (Intas pharma)
- Epogen, made by Amgen
- Epogin
- Eprex, made by Janssen-Cilag
- Procrit[14]
- epoetin beta:
- NeoRecormon, made by Hoffmann–La Roche
- Recormon
- Methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta (Mircera) by Roche
- epoetin delta:
- Dynepo trademark name for an erythropoiesis stimulating protein, by Shire plc
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- epoetin zeta (biosimilar forms for epoetin apha):
- Silapo (Stada)
- Retacrit (Hospira)
- Miscellaneous:
- Epocept, made by Lupin Pharmaceuticals
- EPOTrust, made by Panacea Biotec Ltd
- Erypro Safe, made by Biocon Ltd.
- Repoitin, made by Serum Institute of India Limited
- Vintor, made by Emcure Pharmaceuticals
- Epofit, made by Intas pharma
- Erykine, made by Intas Biopharmaceutica
- Wepox, made by Wockhardt Biotech
- Espogen, made by LG life sciences.
- ReliPoietin, made by Reliance Life Sciences
- Shanpoietin, made by Shantha Biotechnics Ltd
- Zyrop, made by Cadila Healthcare Ltd.
- EPIAO (rHuEPO), made by Shenyang Sunshine Pharmaceutical Co.. LTD. China
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Darbepoetin alfa is a form created by 5 substitutions (Asn-57, Thr-59, Val-114, Asn-115 and Thr-117) that create 2 new N-glycosylation sites.
More recently, a novel erythropoiesis-stimulating protein (NESP) has been produced.[15] This glycoprotein demonstrates anti-anemic capabilities and has a longer terminal half-life than erythropoietin. NESP offers chronic renal failure patients a lower dose of hormones to maintain normal hemoglobin levels.
Blood doping
ESAs have a history of use as blood doping agents in endurance sports such as horseracing, boxing,[16] cycling, rowing, distance running, race walking, cross country skiing, biathlon, and triathlons. The overall oxygen delivery system (blood oxygen levels, as well as heart stroke volume, vascularization, and lung function) is one of the major limiting factors to muscles' ability to perform endurance exercise. Therefore, the primary reason athletes may use ESAs is to improve oxygen delivery to muscles, which directly improves their endurance capacity. With the advent of recombinant erythropoietin in the 1990s, the practice of autologous and homologous blood transfusion has been partially replaced by injecting erythropoietin such that the body naturally produces its own red cells. ESAs increase hematocrit (% of blood volume that is red cell mass) and total red cell mass in the body, providing a good advantage in sports where such practice is banned.[17] In addition to ethical considerations in sports, providing an increased red cell mass beyond the natural levels reduces blood flow due to increased viscosity, and increases the likelihood of thrombosis and stroke. Due to dangers associated with using ESAs, their use should be limited to the clinic where anemic patients are boosted back to normal hemoglobin levels (as opposed to going above the normal levels for performance advantage, leading to an increased risk of death).
Though EPO was believed to be widely used in the 1990s in certain sports, there was no way at the time to directly test for it, until in 2000, when a test developed by scientists at the French national anti-doping laboratory (LNDD) and endorsed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was introduced to detect pharmaceutical EPO by distinguishing it from the nearly identical natural hormone normally present in an athlete's urine.
In 2002, at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Dr. Don Catlin, the founder and then-director of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Lab, reported finding darbepoetin alfa, a form of erythropoietin, in a test sample for the first time in sports.[18] At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Alex Schwazer, the Gold medalist in the 50-kilometer race walk in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, tested positive for EPO and was disqualified.[19]
Since 2002, EPO tests performed by U.S. sports authorities have consisted of only a urine or "direct" test. From 2000–2006, EPO tests at the Olympics were conducted on both blood and urine.[20][21] However, several compounds have been identified that can be taken orally to stimulate endogenous EPO production. Most of the compounds stabilize the hypoxia inducible transcription factors (HIF) which activate the EPO gene. The compounds include oxo-glutarate competitors but also simple ions such as cobalt(II) chloride. [22]
Cycling
It is believed that synthetic EPO came into use in cycling about 1990.[23] In theory, EPO use can increase VO2 max by a significant amount,[24] making it useful for endurance sports like cycling. Italian anti-doping advocate Sandro Donati has claimed that the history of doping in cycling can be traced to the Italian Dr Francesco Conconi at the University of Ferrara. Conconi had worked on the idea of giving athletes tranfusions of their own blood in the 1980s. Donati felt this work "opened the road to EPO . . . because blood doping was a trial to understand the role of EPO".[25]
Dr. Michele Ferrari, a former student and mentee of Conconi,[26] had a controversial interview mentioning the drug in 1994, just after his Gewiss-Ballan team had a remarkable performance in the La Flèche Wallonne race. Ferrari told l'Equipe journalist Jean-Michel Rouet that EPO had no "fundamental" effect on performance and that if a rider used it is wouldn't "scandalize" himself. After the journalist pointed out several riders were suspected of dying from EPO, Ferrari said that EPO was not dangerous, that only abuse of it was dangerous, saying "It's also dangerous to drink 10 liters of orange juice." The 'orange juice' comment has been widely misquoted.[27][28] Ferrari was fired shortly after but continued to work in the industry.[26] That same year, Sandro Donati, working for the Italian National Olympic Committee, presented a report accusing Conconi of being linked to the use of EPO in the sport.[25]
In 1997 the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) instituted a new rule that riders testing above 50% haematocrit were not allowed to race.[29] Robert Millar, former racer, later wrote for Cycling News that the 50% limit was "was an open invitation to dope to that level", pointing out that normally haematocrit levels would start "around 40-42%" and drop during the course of a "grand tour", but after EPO they were staying at 50% for "weeks at a time".[30]
By 1998 EPO use had become widespread and the Festina affair tarnished the 1998 Tour de France.[23] One manager offered a 270,000 franc-per-month raise to Christophe Bassons if he would use EPO (Bassons refused).[31]
In 2010, Floyd Landis admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs, including EPO, throughout the majority of his career as a professional cyclist.[32] In 2012 the USADA released a report on its investigation into the U.S. Postal Service cycling team and blood doping. The report contained affidavits from numerous riders on the team including Frankie Andreu, Tyler Hamilton, George Hincapie, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, and several others, outlining explicitly that they, and Lance Armstrong, used a cocktail of performance enhancing substances to fuel their success in the Tour de France, most notably, EPO, during the 1999 tour. Armstrong was consequently stripped of his seven tour wins by USADA, and the UCI subsequently concurred with this decision. Tour organisers have expunged Armstrong's name from the annals of the race's history. Witnesses testified that code words used for EPO included "Edgar", "Poe",[33] "Edgar Allen Poe", and "Zumo" (Spanish for 'juice').[34]
Some anti-doping cycling advocates, such as Greg LeMond and Emma O'Reilly, have claimed part of the motivation for their public speaking against doping in the sport was caused by what they believed to be doping-related deaths amongst professional cyclists.[35][36][37] Greg LeMond has suggested establishing a baseline for VO2 Max of riders (and other attributes) to detect abnormal performance increases.[38]
History
In 1905, Paul Carnot, a professor of medicine in Paris, France, and his assistant, Clotilde Deflandre, proposed the idea that hormones regulate the production of red blood cells. After conducting experiments on rabbits subject to bloodletting, Carnot and Deflandre attributed an increase in red blood cells in rabbit subjects to a hemotropic factor called hemopoietin. Eva Bonsdorff and Eeva Jalavisto continued to study red cell production and later called the hemopoietic substance 'erythropoietin'. Further studies investigating the existence of EPO by K.R. Reissman (unknown location) and Allan J. Erslev (Thomas Jefferson Medical College) demonstrated that a certain substance, circulated in the blood, is able to stimulate red blood cell production and increase hematocrit. This substance was finally purified and confirmed as erythropoietin, opening doors to therapeutic uses for EPO in diseases like anemia.[11][39]
Haematologist John Adamson and nephrologist Joseph W. Eschbach looked at various forms of renal failure and the role of the natural hormone EPO in the formation of red blood cells. Studying sheep and other animals in the 1970s, the two scientists helped establish that EPO stimulates the production of red cells in bone marrow and could lead to a treatment for anemia in humans. In 1968, Goldwasser and Kung began work to purify human EPO, and managed to purify milligram quantities of over 95% pure material by 1977.[40] Pure EPO allowed the amino acid sequence to be partially identified and the gene to be isolated.[11] Later an NIH-funded researcher at Columbia University discovered a way to synthesize EPO. Columbia University patented the technique, and licensed it to Amgen. Controversy has ensued over the fairness of the rewards that Amgen reaped from NIH-funded work, and Goldwasser was never financially rewarded for his work.[41]
In the 1980s, Adamson, Joseph W. Eschbach, Joan C. Egrie, Michael R. Downing and Jeffrey K. Browne conducted a clinical trial at the Northwest Kidney Centers for a synthetic form of the hormone, Epogen, produced by Amgen. The trial was successful, and the results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 1987.[42]
In 1985, Lin et al. isolated the human erythropoietin gene from a genomic phage library and were able to characterize it for research and production.[43] Their research demonstrated that the gene for erythropoietin encoded the production of EPO in mammalian cells that is biologically active in vitro and in vivo. The industrial production of recombinant human erythropoietin (RhEpo) for treating anemia patients would begin soon after.
In 1989, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the hormone, called Epogen, which remains in use today.
See also
- Hemopoietic growth factors
- Jehovah's Witnesses and blood transfusions
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- ^ Eschbach JW, Egrie JC, Downing MR, Browne JK, Adamson JW (January 1987). "Correction of the anemia of end-stage renal disease with recombinant human erythropoietin. Results of a combined phase I and II clinical trial". N. Engl. J. Med. 316 (2): 73–8. doi:10.1056/NEJM198701083160203. PMID 3537801.
- ^ Lin FK, Suggs S, Lin CH, Browne JK, Smalling R, Egrie JC, Chen KK, Fox GM, Martin F, Stabinsky Z (November 1985). "Cloning and expression of the human erythropoietin gene". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82 (22): 7580–4. doi:10.1073/pnas.82.22.7580. PMC 391376. PMID 3865178. http://www.pnas.org/content/82/22/7580.abstract.
Further reading
- Takeuchi M, Kobata A (1992). "Structures and functional roles of the sugar chains of human erythropoietins". Glycobiology 1 (4): 337–46. doi:10.1093/glycob/1.4.337. PMID 1820196.
- Semba RD, Juul SE (2002). "Erythropoietin in human milk: physiology and role in infant health". Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association 18 (3): 252–61. PMID 12192960.
- Ratcliffe PJ (2003). "From erythropoietin to oxygen: hypoxia-inducible factor hydroxylases and the hypoxia signal pathway". Blood Purif. 20 (5): 445–50. doi:10.1159/000065201. PMID 12207089.
- Westenfelder, Christof (2002). "Unexpected renal actions of erythropoietin". Exp. Nephrol. 10 (5–6): 294–8. doi:10.1159/000065304. PMID 12381912.
- Becerra SP, Amaral J (2002). "Erythropoietin--an endogenous retinal survival factor". N. Engl. J. Med. 347 (24): 1968–70. doi:10.1056/NEJMcibr022629. PMID 12477950.
- Genc S, Koroglu TF, Genc K (2004). "Erythropoietin and the nervous system". Brain Res. 1000 (1–2): 19–31. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2003.12.037. PMID 15053948.
- Fandrey J (2004). "Oxygen-dependent and tissue-specific regulation of erythropoietin gene expression". Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 286 (6): R977–88. doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00577.2003. PMID 15142852.
- Juul S (2004). "Recombinant erythropoietin as a neuroprotective treatment: in vitro and in vivo models". Clinics in perinatology 31 (1): 129–42. doi:10.1016/j.clp.2004.03.004. PMID 15183662.
- Buemi M, Caccamo C, Nostro L, et al. (2005). "Brain and cancer: the protective role of erythropoietin". Med Res Rev 25 (2): 245–59. doi:10.1002/med.20012. PMID 15389732.
- Sytkowski AJ (2007). "Does erythropoietin have a dark side? Epo signaling and cancer cells". Sci. STKE 2007 (395): e38. doi:10.1126/stke.3952007pe38. PMID 17636183.
- Goldwasser, Eugene. A Bloody Long Journey: Erythropoietin and the Person Who Isolated It. Xlibris, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4568-5737-0
External links
- NYT - 1987 announcement of Epogen's clinical success
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1eer: CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN ERYTHROPOIETIN COMPLEXED TO ITS RECEPTOR AT 1.9 ANGSTROMS
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Endocrine system: hormones (Peptide hormones · Steroid hormones)
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Endocrine
glands |
Hypothalamic-
pituitary
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Hypothalamus
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GnRH · TRH · Dopamine · CRH · GHRH/Somatostatin · Melanin concentrating hormone
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Posterior pituitary
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Vasopressin · Oxytocin
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Anterior pituitary
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α (FSH FSHB, LH LHB, TSH TSHB, CGA) · Prolactin · POMC (CLIP, ACTH, MSH, Endorphins, Lipotropin) · GH
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Adrenal axis
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Adrenal cortex: aldosterone · cortisol · DHEA
Adrenal medulla: epinephrine · norepinephrine
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Thyroid axis
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Thyroid: thyroid hormone (T3 and T4) · calcitonin
Parathyroid: PTH
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Gonadal axis
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Testis: testosterone · AMH · inhibin
Ovary: estradiol · progesterone · activin and inhibin · relaxin (pregnancy)
Placenta: hCG · HPL · estrogen · progesterone
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Islet-Acinar
Axis
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Pancreas: glucagon · insulin · amylin · somatostatin · pancreatic polypeptide
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Pineal gland
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Pineal gland: melatonin
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Non-end.
glands |
Thymus: Thymosin (Thymosin α1, Thymosin beta) · Thymopoietin · Thymulin
Digestive system: Stomach: gastrin · ghrelin · Duodenum: CCK · Incretins (GIP, GLP-1) · secretin · motilin · VIP · Ileum: enteroglucagon · peptide YY · Liver/other: Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1, IGF-2)
Adipose tissue: leptin · adiponectin · resistin
Skeleton: Osteocalcin
Kidney: JGA (renin) · peritubular cells (EPO) · calcitriol · prostaglandin
Heart: Natriuretic peptide (ANP, BNP)
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noco (d)/cong/tumr, sysi/epon
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proc, drug (A10/H1/H2/H3/H5)
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Urinary system physiology: renal physiology and acid-base physiology
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Filtration |
- Renal blood flow
- Ultrafiltration
- Countercurrent exchange
- Filtration fraction
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Hormones affecting filtration |
- Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
- Aldosterone
- Atrial natriuretic peptide
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Secretion/clearance |
- Pharmacokinetics
- Clearance of medications
- Urine flow rate
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Reabsorption |
- Solvent drag
- Na+
- Cl-
- urea
- glucose
- oligopeptides
- protein
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Endocrine |
- Renin
- Erythropoietin (EPO)
- Calcitriol (Active vitamin D)
- Prostaglandins
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Assessing Renal function/
Measures of dialysis |
- Glomerular filtration rate
- Creatinine clearance
- Renal clearance ratio
- Urea reduction ratio
- Kt/V
- Standardized Kt/V
- Hemodialysis product
- PAH clearance (Effective renal plasma flow
- Extraction ratio)
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Acid-base physiology |
- Fluid balance
- Darrow Yannet diagram
Body water: Intracellular fluid/Cytosol
- Extracellular fluid
- (Interstitial fluid
- Plasma
- Transcellular fluid)
- Base excess
- Davenport diagram
- Anion gap
- Arterial blood gas
- Winter's formula
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Buffering/compensation |
- Bicarbonate buffering system
- Respiratory compensation
- Renal compensation
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Other |
- Fractional sodium excretion
- BUN-to-creatinine ratio
- Tubuloglomerular feedback
- Natriuresis
- Urine
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noco/acba/cong/tumr, sysi/epon, urte
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proc/itvp, drug (G4B), blte, urte
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Cytokines, glycoproteins: colony-stimulating factors
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CFU-GEMM |
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CFU-GM |
- Granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor
- Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor
- Macrophage colony-stimulating factor
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CFU-E |
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CFU-Meg |
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cell/phys (coag, heme, immu, gran), csfs
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rbmg/mogr/tumr/hist, sysi/epon, btst
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drug (B1/2/3+5+6), btst, trns
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Other hematological agents
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Antianemic preparations (B03) |
- Erythropoietin (Darbepoetin alfa, Methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta, Peginesatide)
- Ferrous ascorbate
- Ferrous aspartate
- Ferrous carbonate
- Ferrous chloride
- Ferrous fumarate
- Ferrous gluconate
- Ferrous glycine sulfate
- Ferrous iodine
- Ferrous succinate
- Ferrous sulfate
- Ferrous tartrate
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Blood substitutes and perfusion solutions (B05) |
- Dextran
- Gelatin agents
- Hemoglobin crosfumaril
- Hemoglobin raffimer
- Hydroxyethyl starch
- Icodextrin
- Serum albumin
- Sorbitol
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Enzymes (B06AA) |
- Bromelain
- Chymotrypsin
- Deoxyribonuclease
- Fibrinolysin
- Hyaluronidase
- Streptokinase
- Trypsin
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Drugs used in hereditary angioedema (B06AC) |
- C1-inhibitor
- Conestat alfa
- Ecallantide
- Icatibant
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cell/phys (coag, heme, immu, gran), csfs
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rbmg/mogr/tumr/hist, sysi/epon, btst
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drug (B1/2/3+5+6), btst, trns
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