Title
Modeling the electric degradation of podocytes and detection of albumin for the early diagnostics of the glomerulus's damage
Date Issued
19 July 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In this paper, the pass of proteins like the albumin through the glomerular layers is modeled. Mainly, we have focused on the mathematical model based on physics which might explain the filtering of giant proteins like the albumin to the convoluted tubule as a relevant indicator of the beginning of the diabetes kidney disease (DKD). The main assumption of this study is that of the presence of high concentrations of glucose might deplete the negative charges (superficial densities) located along the endothelium and podocytes. This has implications on the podocytes's architecture in the sense that the lack of charges is synonymous of degradation and loss of functionalities. When podocytes have lost their morphology, the albumin and others negatively charged proteins exert electrical forces on the slit diaphragm and therefore makes a dynamical displacement in the Bowman's space or urine formation space. We have simulated the possible spatial configurations of albumin and noise expected to be measured by the nanosensor. The results are interpreted as the possible beginning of the glomerular damage in type-2 diabetes patients. The Monte Carlo simulation yields that the signal can be measured with an efficiency of order of 70%.
Start page
385
End page
390
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones Urología, Nefrología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85028011434
ISBN of the container
9781509029839
Conference
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, MeMeA 2017 - Proceedings
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