title: Ionic and nonionic fluoride levels in blood of dialyzed and undialyzed patients with renal failure and kidney transplanted patients.
abstract: The present study revealed that the total fluoride level in human whole blood is closely related to the renal function. For the undialyzed patients who had not undergone hemodialysis, the total fluoride level in whole blood linearly increased with the increase of creatinine (Cr) value. The increased fluoride was found to be nonionic in the other blood part than serum, while the nonionic fluoride level in serum was almost constant. That is, the hemodialysis treatment finally reduced the nonionic fluoride level in the other blood part than serum. On the other hand, one hemodialysis treatment could excrete ionic fluoride, but not nonionic fluoride. These results suggest that the ionic fluoride is transformed to nonionic fluoride to be accumulated in other blood part than serum and the nonionic fluoride is transformed to the ionic fluoride to be excreted. Thus the accumulation of nonionic fluoride in other blood part than serum plays a role of the buffer in preventing a too high serum fluoride level.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Shiga University of Medical Science.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshitake
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ando
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D005459:Fluorides / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000097:blood*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008875:Middle Aged; D006435:Renal Dialysis
chemical_list: D003404:Creatinine; D005459:Fluorides