Mitochondrial dysregulation and oxidative stress in patients with chronic kidney disease. Homo sapiens

Several reports have focused on the identification of biological elements involved in the development of abnormal systemic biochemical alterations in chronic kidney disease, but this abundant literature results most of the time fragmented. To better define the cellular machinery associated to this condition, we employed an innovative high-throughput approach based on a whole transcriptomic analysis and classical biomolecular methodologies. The genomic screening of peripheral blood mononuclear cells revealed that 44 genes were up-regulated in both chronic kidney disease patients in conservative treatment (CKD, n=9) and hemodialysis (HD, n=17) compared to healthy subjects (NORM) (p90% PBMC were viable). Total RNA was isolated by RNeasy mini kit Qiagen (QIAGEN AG, Basel, Switzerland) from a minimum of 5 milion cryopreserved PBMC. RNA was, then, processed and hybridized to the GeneChip Human Genome Plus 2.0 or U133A oligonucleotide microarray (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA)