The interaction of human plasma retinol-binding protein with plasma prealbumin was studied by the techniques of velocity ultracentrifugation and polarization of retinol fluorescence. In the first method the unbound fraction of retinol-binding protein, which sediments more slowly than its complexes with prealbumin, was measured by its absorption. A stoichiometry of retinol-binding protein to pre...

* Correspondence: [email protected] To the Editor, We read with great interest the article published in a recent issue of the Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences by Dumlu et al. entitled “A general consideration of the importance of nutrition for critically ill patients” (1). We thank Dr Dumlu and colleagues for their valuable investigation evaluating the nutritional status of intensive ca...

Studies were conducted to explore vitamin A transport in the non-mammalian vertebrates, especially Pisces, Amphibia, and Reptilia, and to isolate and partially characterize piscine retinol-binding protein. Retinol-containing proteins in fresh plasma obtained from bullfrogs and a turtle exhibited similar properties to those found in mammalian and chicken plasma: i.e., molecular weight of about 6...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Nutritional interventions for malnutrition in cancer patients can be helpful. However, concise intervention recommendations remain controversial. Thus, the aim of this study was to report on a nutrition intervention conducted by a multidisciplinary team of specialist nurses and to explore the effect of nutritional intervention on cancer patients. METHODS This prospective cli...

AIM The aim of this study was to compare the nutritional biochemical parameters, prealbumin levels, and bioimpedance analysis parameters of adult and elderly hemodialysis (HD) patients. METHODS This prospective cross-sectional study included 50 adult HD patients (42.0 % female). Nutritional status was assessed by post-dialysis multifrequency bioimpedance analysis (BIA), serum prealbumin and o...

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a frequent adverse event. Nutritional status can become impaired in cancer patients, potentially contributing to neuropathy's evolution. Our aim was to evaluate serum micronutrients and prealbumin in a cohort of 113 solid-cancer patients receiving platinum and taxane compounds during the development and recovery of neuropathy, up to 1 year af...

The measurement of circulating prealbumin has been shown to be clinically useful in the assessment of nutritional status, both as an initial screen and in the monitoring of nutritional recovery. We describe a fully automated, noncompetitive, homogeneous, light-scattering immunoassay that has been developed for this analyte on a Dimension (Dade) analyzer. A sheep anti-prealbumin IgG fraction was...

We applied stepwise regression for multivariate analysis of data for free thyroxin (FT4) in serum and for other laboratory tests of thyroid function in patients with nonthyroidal illness. Using the maximum R2 improvement and backward elimination methods to test five variables [prealbumin, albumin, T4-binding globulin (TBG), free fatty acids (FFA), and FFA/albumin molar ratio], we found that the...