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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024

Middle Molecular Uremic Toxin and Blood Purification Therapy.

Hideki Kawanishi

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Hideki KawanishiTsuchiya General Hospital, 3-30 Nakajima-cho Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730-8655, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1207-0888

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of blood purification therapy is to remove uremic toxins, and middle molecules (MMs) are a specific target. An MM is defined as a solute that passes through the glomerulus with a molecular weight in the range of 0.5-58 kDa, and new classifications of "small-middle 0.5-15 kDa," "medium-middle 15-25 kDa," and "large-middle 25-58 kDa" were proposed. In Japan, the removal of α1-microglobulin (αMG) in the large-middle range has been the focus, but a new theory of removal has been developed, emphasizing the antioxidant effect of αMG as a physiological function. Clinical proof of this mechanism will lead to further development of blood purification therapies.

Indexed as

blood purificationhemodiafiltrationMCO-membranemiddle moleculesα1-microglobulin

Identifiers

PMID38337341
PMCPMC10856111

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