title: The absence of 24,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol in anephric patients.
abstract: 1. In subjects with normal renal function there was a strong positive correlation between serum concentrations of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol and 24,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, as measured by competitive protein-binding assay. 2. The 24,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol concentration was about 7% of the prevailing 25-hydroxycholecalciferol concentration. 3. In contrast, sera from anephric patients contained very low or undetectable amounts of 24,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol even after the serum 25-hydroxycholecalciferol concentrations in these patients had been elevated by oral administration of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol. 4. In a further group of anephric patients, all having normal serum 25-hydroxycholecalciferol concentrations, no radioactively labelled 24,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol was formed from an injected pulse dose of [3H,14C]cholecalciferol. 5. These results indicate that in man the kidney is the major site of 24-hydroxylation of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002762:Cholecalciferol / Q000378:metabolism; D004100:Dihydroxycholecalciferols / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006887:Hydroxycholecalciferols / Q000097:blood*; D006900:Hydroxylation; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy
chemical_list: D004100:Dihydroxycholecalciferols; D006887:Hydroxycholecalciferols; D002762:Cholecalciferol