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Serum, urinary, and salivary nitric oxide in rheumatoid arthritis: complexities of interpreting nitric oxide measures.

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Weinberg, JB; Lang, T; Wilkinson, WE; Pisetsky, DS; St Clair, EW
Published in: Arthritis Res Ther
2006

Nitric oxide (NO) may play important roles in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA is an inflammatory disease involving joints and other systems including salivary glands. To assess NO production in RA patients, we compared levels of serum, urine, and salivary nitrite and nitrate (NOx) in patients with RA and normal subjects, and we examined the relationships of these measures to disease activity. Serum, urine, and NOx levels as well as renal creatinine, NOx clearance and fractional excretion rates were compared in 25 RA patients and 20 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. Subjects were hospitalized for 3 days and placed on a NOx restricted diet. NOx was assayed using nitrate reductase and the Griess reagent. RA activity was assessed using standard clinical and laboratory measures. While consuming a restricted diet for 3 days to eliminate the effects of oral intake of NOx, 24 hour urinary NOx excretion decreased in both RA patients and healthy controls. Urine NOx levels at all time points were not significantly different between RA patients and normal subjects. Serum NOx levels also decreased during the 3 days of NOx restriction, but RA patients had higher serum NOx levels at all time points compared with the control group. Likewise, serum NOx/creatinine ratios were higher in RA patients than in controls. Although basal salivary flow rate and tear flow were lower in RA patients, salivary NOx levels did not differ between normal and RA subjects. While renal creatinine clearance was not different between the two groups, we found that RA patients had lower renal NOx clearance and lower renal NOx fractional excretion. After correction of p values for multiple comparisons, there were no significant relationships for the RA group between measures of disease activity and the urinary NOx, serum NOx, or urinary NOx clearance. Despite interest in the use of NO as a marker of disease activity, alterations in renal NOx clearance and fractional excretion in RA make it difficult to assess in vivo NO production even with strict dietary restriction of NOx intake.

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Arthritis Res Ther

DOI

EISSN

1478-6362

Publication Date

2006

Volume

8

Issue

5

Start / End Page

R140

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Tears
  • Saliva
  • Nitric Oxide
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Dietary Proteins
  • Dietary Fats
  • Dietary Carbohydrates
 

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Weinberg, J. B., Lang, T., Wilkinson, W. E., Pisetsky, D. S., & St Clair, E. W. (2006). Serum, urinary, and salivary nitric oxide in rheumatoid arthritis: complexities of interpreting nitric oxide measures. Arthritis Res Ther, 8(5), R140. https://doi.org/10.1186/ar2030
Weinberg, J Brice, Thomas Lang, William E. Wilkinson, David S. Pisetsky, and E William St Clair. “Serum, urinary, and salivary nitric oxide in rheumatoid arthritis: complexities of interpreting nitric oxide measures.Arthritis Res Ther 8, no. 5 (2006): R140. https://doi.org/10.1186/ar2030.
Weinberg JB, Lang T, Wilkinson WE, Pisetsky DS, St Clair EW. Serum, urinary, and salivary nitric oxide in rheumatoid arthritis: complexities of interpreting nitric oxide measures. Arthritis Res Ther. 2006;8(5):R140.
Weinberg, J. Brice, et al. “Serum, urinary, and salivary nitric oxide in rheumatoid arthritis: complexities of interpreting nitric oxide measures.Arthritis Res Ther, vol. 8, no. 5, 2006, p. R140. Pubmed, doi:10.1186/ar2030.
Weinberg JB, Lang T, Wilkinson WE, Pisetsky DS, St Clair EW. Serum, urinary, and salivary nitric oxide in rheumatoid arthritis: complexities of interpreting nitric oxide measures. Arthritis Res Ther. 2006;8(5):R140.

Published In

Arthritis Res Ther

DOI

EISSN

1478-6362

Publication Date

2006

Volume

8

Issue

5

Start / End Page

R140

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Tears
  • Saliva
  • Nitric Oxide
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Dietary Proteins
  • Dietary Fats
  • Dietary Carbohydrates