Anemia is a hallmark of chronic renal failure (CRF) which, if left untreated, is a major contributing factor to the high morbidity and mortality of this condition. This characteristically hypoproliferative anemia is due primarily to decreased erythropoietin (EPO) production by the diseased kidney. Currently, correction of the anemia with recombinant human EPO (r-HuEPO) constitutes the mainstay of management in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). / An alternative approach to the treatment of the anemia of CRF is the administration of androgens. / My project utilized a well characterized mouse model of surgically-induced renal failure to study the mechanism(s) of androgen effect on the anemia of CRF. Recent experiments in this model revealed a dose-response to r-HuEPO similar to that in humans, absent EPO gene expression in the liver and full correction of the anemia of CRF by the administration of a combination of subtherapeutic doses of r-HuEPO and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), a known regulator of erythropoiesis in the normal physiological state. / My hypothesis followed two lines of investigation: androgens may act to increase EPO production or they may increase production of IGF-I, thereby increasing extra-renal erythropoietic activity by either of the two hormones. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.20982 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Yared, Kibar. |
| Contributors | Gagnon, Raymonde F. (advisor), Brox, Alan (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physiology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001630998, proquestno: MQ50912, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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