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ArticleBiophysics and physicobiology2015

Subattomole detection of adiponectin in urine by ultrasensitive ELISA coupled with thio-NAD cycling.

Mika Morikawa, Rina Naito, Koichi Mita, Satoshi Watabe, Kazunari Nakaishi, Teruki Yoshimura, Toshiaki Miura, Seiichi Hashida, Etsuro Ito

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Article in Biophysics and physicobiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Ultrasensitive ELISA Developed for Diagnosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mika MorikawaR&D Headquarters, TAUNS Laboratories, Inc., Shizuoka 410-2325, Japan; Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa 769-2193, Japan.
Rina NaitoKagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa 769-2193, Japan.
Koichi MitaFaculty of Science and Engineering, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa 769-2193, Japan.
Satoshi WatabeR&D Department, BL Co. Ltd., Shizuoka 410-0042, Japan.
Kazunari NakaishiR&D Headquarters, TAUNS Laboratories, Inc., Shizuoka 410-2325, Japan.
Teruki YoshimuraFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan.
Toshiaki MiuraGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido 060-0812, Japan.
Seiichi HashidaInstitute for Health Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima 770-8514, Japan.
Etsuro ItoKagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa 769-2193, Japan.
Tokushima Bunri University · JPHealth Sciences University of Hokkaido · JPHokkaido University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adiponectin is a hormone secreted from adipocytes, and it demonstrates antidiabetic, anti-atherosclerotic, antiobesity and anti-inflammatory effects. However, the patterns of change in urinary adiponectin levels in various diseases remain unknown, because only trace amounts of the hormone are present in urine. In the present study, we applied an ultrasensitive ELISA coupled with thio-NAD cycling to measure urinary adiponectin levels. Spikeand-recovery tests using urine confirmed the reliability of our ultrasensitive ELISA. The limit of detection for adiponectin in urine was 2.3×10(-19) moles/assay (1.4 pg/mL). The urinary adiponectin concentration ranged between 0.04 and 5.82 ng/mL in healthy subjects. The pilot study showed that the urinary adiponectin levels, which were corrected by the creatinine concentration, were 0.73±0.50 (ng/mg creatinine, N=6) for healthy subjects, versus 12.02±3.85 (ng/mg creatinine, N=3) for patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). That is, the urinary adiponectin levels were higher (P<0.05) in DM patients than in healthy subjects. Further, these urinary adiponectin levels tended to increase with the progression of DM accompanied with nephropathy. Our method is thus expected to provide a simple, rapid and reasonably priced test for noninvasive monitoring of the progression of DM without the requirement of special tools.

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adiponectindiabetesELISAnephropathythio-NAD cyclingurine

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PMID27493857
PMCPMC4736831
OpenAlexW2262198807

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