TY - JOUR
T1 - Jejunal absorption and secretion of calcium in patients with chronic renal disease on hemodialysis
AU - Parker, T. F.
AU - Vergne-Marini, P.
AU - Hull, A. R.
AU - Pak, C. Y.
AU - Fordtran, J. S.
PY - 1974
Y1 - 1974
N2 - 10 patients with chronic renal disease on hemodialysis and 8 normals were studied by constant jejunal perfusion of calcium gluconate solutions, using polyethylene glycol as a nonabsorbable marker. Results in normals indicated that calcium absorption from 1 and 5 mM calcium solutions is mainly active. Absorption from 5, 15, and 20 mM solutions was a linear function of luminal calcium concentration, suggesting that the active transport carrier is saturated when luminal calcium concentration is greater than 5 mM and indicating that the increment in absorption at higher luminal concentrations is mainly the result of passive absorption. With 1 mM calcium, normals absorbed calcium against a concentration gradient, whereas the patients secreted calcium. Absorption in the patients was much less than normal with 5, 15, and 20 mM luminal calcium concentrations; however, the slope of this linear (passive) portion of the curve was normal. Unidirectional calcium fluxes were measured with calcium 47. Flux out of the lumen was depressed 2.5 fold in the patients, but flux into the lumen was normal. Xylose, urea, and tritiated water were absorbed normally, indicating no generalized abnormality of jejunal transport in these patients. Endogenous calcium secretion, estimated by the amount of calcium added to a calcium free solution, was normal in the dialysis patients. These results indicate that active calcium absorption is markedly depressed in patients with chronic renal disease who are receiving hemodialysis therapy. On the other hand, passive calcium movement and endogenous calcium secretions are normal.
AB - 10 patients with chronic renal disease on hemodialysis and 8 normals were studied by constant jejunal perfusion of calcium gluconate solutions, using polyethylene glycol as a nonabsorbable marker. Results in normals indicated that calcium absorption from 1 and 5 mM calcium solutions is mainly active. Absorption from 5, 15, and 20 mM solutions was a linear function of luminal calcium concentration, suggesting that the active transport carrier is saturated when luminal calcium concentration is greater than 5 mM and indicating that the increment in absorption at higher luminal concentrations is mainly the result of passive absorption. With 1 mM calcium, normals absorbed calcium against a concentration gradient, whereas the patients secreted calcium. Absorption in the patients was much less than normal with 5, 15, and 20 mM luminal calcium concentrations; however, the slope of this linear (passive) portion of the curve was normal. Unidirectional calcium fluxes were measured with calcium 47. Flux out of the lumen was depressed 2.5 fold in the patients, but flux into the lumen was normal. Xylose, urea, and tritiated water were absorbed normally, indicating no generalized abnormality of jejunal transport in these patients. Endogenous calcium secretion, estimated by the amount of calcium added to a calcium free solution, was normal in the dialysis patients. These results indicate that active calcium absorption is markedly depressed in patients with chronic renal disease who are receiving hemodialysis therapy. On the other hand, passive calcium movement and endogenous calcium secretions are normal.
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U2 - 10.1172/JCI107771
DO - 10.1172/JCI107771
M3 - Article
C2 - 4847249
AN - SCOPUS:0016146633
VL - 54
SP - 358
EP - 365
JO - Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
JF - Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
SN - 1744-165X
IS - 2
ER -