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Whole blood serotonin levels in chronic renal failure
M E Steyn1, M Viljoen, J B Ubbink
1Department of Physiology, University of Pretoria.
Life Sciences
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Whole blood serotonin levels were investigated in a control group (n = 35) and in a group of chronic renal failure patients (n = 127) on various treatment regimen i.e. conservative treatment (n = 39), maintenance haemodialysis (n = 35) and after renal transplantation (n = 53). The whole blood serotonin levels, as determined by high performance liquid chromatography, were significantly lower in the chronic renal failure patients than in the control group (p = 0.0001). Whole blood serotonin levels were significantly lower in the white subjects than in the black subjects of the study (p = 0.0001).