Assessment of glomerular filtration rate in healthy subjects and normoalbuminuric diabetic patients: validity of a new (MDRD) prediction equation

Abstract

Background. Mononuclear cells from patients dialysed with cellulosic membranes undergo rapid apoptosis in vitro. The aim of the present study was to determine whether the apoptosis associated with cellulosic haemodialysis membrane shares similar features with the spontaneous apoptosis described in normal monocytes. Thus, we determined whether apoptosis is dependent on caspase‐3 activity and is inhibited by lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which are two features of spontaneous apoptosis in normal monocytes.