Effect of dietary synbiotic supplementation on serum indoxyl sulfate in prevalent hemodialysis patients

• Main Authors: Mohamed Saeed Hassan (Author), Yasser Soliman Ahmed (Author), Eman Ibrahim Sarhaan (Author), Nayra Shaker Mehanna (Author), Norhan Nagdy Madbouli (Author), Mostafa Abdelnasier Abdelgawad (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Indoxyl sulfate (IS) is produced by action of the intestinal flora on tryptophan in protein diet, and it is normally excreted by the kidney. IS is a protein-bound uremic toxin, and it is difficult to be removed by conventional hemodialysis (HD) methods; so, it accumulates in HD p...