Avaliação da albuminúria e da eletroforese de proteínas urinárias de cães com hiperadrenocorticismo e a relação com a pressão arterial sistêmica / Evaluation of albuminuria and urinary protein electrophoresis in dogs with hyperadrenocorticism and the relationship with sistemic blood pressure

AUTOR(ES)

Carolina Zaghi Cavalcante

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Hyperadrenocorticism is a common endocrinopathie in dogs characterized by excessive glucocorticoid expousure secondary to adrenal secretion. Chronic hypercortisolemia may promote several complications, including sistemic hypertension and glomerulonephritis. Glomerulonephritis may lead to different proteinuria degrees and chronic renal disease. Urine protein loss, specially albumin, is characteristic in glomerular diseases. Laboratorial determination by the urinary protein/creatinin ratio (PCR), albuminuria (ELISA test) and urinary protein electrophoresis are recommended for diagnosis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between proteinuria and sistemic arterial hypertension in dogs with hyperadrenocorticism and to identify the nephron injured segment by evaluating albuminuria and urinary protein molecular weight. Thrithy dogs with hyperadrenocorticism were subdivided in 2 groups as following: 13 dogs with sistemic arterial hypertension (group I) and 17 normal dogs (group II). Urinary protein/creatinin ratio (PCR); albuminuria using the evaluation of normalized albumin and urinary albumin/creatinin ratio (ACR); and protein electrophoresis using polyacrylamide gel with sodium dodecil sulfate (SDS - PAGE) were performed. Results were compared with data of 30 clinically healthy dogs. No influence of sistemic arterial hypertension in dogs with hyperadrenocorticism was noticed in albuminuria magnitude using the ELISA method, nor in the quality and quantity of low (<60 kDa) and high (>60 kDa) molecular weight bands observed in electrophoresis. However, dogs with hyperadrenocorticism can develop glomerular and tubular lesions, characterized by albuminuria and by the presence of high and low molecular weight proteins in urine independently of sistemic arterial hypertension. Furthermore, urinary protein electrophoresis in polyacrylaminde gel associated to quantitative evaluation of total protein such as the quantitative determination of the albuminuria, may be used in evaluating committed nephrons segments that caused urine protein loss.

ASSUNTO(S)

eletroforese cães dogs albuminuria hyperadrenocorticism electrophoresis hiperadrenocorticismo proteinuria proteinúria albuminúria

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