BACKGROUND/AIM Vascular calcification is common and contributes to increased cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. In this prospective study, we aimed to investigate the associations of serum S100A12 in the presence of severe coronary artery calcification (CAC) and the progression of CAC in HD patients. METHODS Sixty maintenance HD patients and 30 controls were enrolled. Ser...

BACKGROUND The calcium-binding protein S100A12 correlates with measures of disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The protein reflects neutrophil activation and the present objective was to explore in a pilot study the associations between S100A12 and other inflammatory markers, clinical assessments as well as degree of synovitis detected by a comprehensive ultrasonography...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether longitudinal measurements of fecal S100A12, a fecal marker of intestinal inflammation, can identify very low birth weight infants at risk for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). STUDY DESIGN This prospective study included 145 preterm infants with birth weight <1500 g. Meconium and stool samples (n = 843) were collected prospectively on alternate days for 4 weeks, ...

BACKGROUND Intestinal mucosal S100A12 and myeloperoxidase (MPO) are inflammatory biomarkers in humans with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, these biomarkers have not been studied in the intestinal mucosa of dogs with chronic enteropathies (CE), even though dogs with CE have increased S100A12 concentrations in feces and serum. This study investigated mucosal S100A12 concentrations and ...

Hemodialysis (HD) patients experience vascular calcification, ultimately leading to high mortality rates. Previously, we reported associations between soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGEs) and extracellular newly identified RAGE-binding protein S100A12 (EN-RAGE) and vascular calcification. Here, we extended our observations, investigating whether these biomarkers may be ...

BACKGROUND The main soluble form of the receptor for advanced glycation end-products (sRAGE) is elevated during acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However other RAGE isoforms and multiple ligands have been poorly reported in the clinical setting, and their respective contribution to RAGE activation during ARDS remains unclear. Our goal was therefore to describe main RAGE isoforms and l...

S100A8/A9 (calprotectin) and S100A12 proinflammatory mediators are found at inflammatory sites and in the serum of patients with inflammatory or autoimmune diseases. These cytoplasmic proteins are secreted by neutrophils at sites of inflammation via alternative secretion pathways of which little is known. This study examined the nature of the stimuli leading to S100A8/A9 and S100A12 secretion a...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to determine whether longitudinal measurements of fecal S100A12, a damage-associated molecular pattern protein, which is released from neutrophils or monocytes under stress, can detect very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants at risk for intestinal distress apart from necrotizing enterocolitis. METHODS This prospective study included 46 VLBW infants with intest...

Inflammation is the predominant characteristic of pneumonia. The present study aimed to to identify a faster and more reliable novel inflammatory marker for the diagnosis of pneumonia. The expression of the S100A12 gene was analyzed by reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction in samples obtained from 46 patients with bacterial pneumonia and other infections, compared with sa...

Introduction The human granulocyte-specific Ca-binding protein S100A12 is particularily over-expressed in autoinflammatory diseases such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) as well as other inflammatory conditions (i.e. infections, vasculitides) and has been ascribed to the group of pro-inflammatory damage associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMPs). In order to operate as DAMP, S100A12 r...