title: Renal filtration, absorption and catabolism of human alpha interferon.
abstract: The renal handling of human interferon-alpha has been evaluated by using an isolated and perfused rabbit kidney. IFN-alpha disappears from plasma with a t1/2 of 81 min and the fractional turnover rate is 0.84%/min. About 47 molecules of IFN-alpha are filtrated with 100 molecules of creatinine but most of the IFN is absorbed by tubular cells. This is the first report showing that human IFN-alpha is filtrated by the kidney, largely absorbed, most probably catabolized within tubular epithelium and excreted in negligible amounts with the urine.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D007372:Interferons / Q000378:metabolism*; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism*; D007684:Kidney Tubules / Q000378:metabolism; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D007372:Interferons