Causes and consequences of increased arterial stiffness in chronic kidney disease patients.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), a widely accepted diagnostic marker of acute renal injury (AKI) may be involved in the development of atherosclerosis. PURPOSE:To assess the prognostic significance of serum and urinary NGAL and serum cystatin C in patients with stable angina undergoing per...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Bachorzewska-Gajewska H,Tomaszuk-Kazberuk A,Jarocka I,Mlodawska E,Lopatowska P,Zalewska-Adamiec M,Dobrzycki S,Musial WJ,Malyszko J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The German Collaborative Glomerulonephritis Therapy Study, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1996, has collected data on more than 1,000 patients with biopsy-proven glomerulonephritis. 929 patients could be evaluated and 500 were treated according to at least one of various protocols developed for a randomized ...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Risler T,Braun N,Bach D,Fünfstück R,Grabensee B,Grupp C,Haufe C,Heering P,Keller F,Krämer B,Müller GA,Schollmeyer P,Stein G,Zäuner I

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has gained interest over the last decade as a viable option for early start dialysis. It is still unknown if shorter break-in periods and less time for proper patient evaluation and training could influence technique survival in comparison to planned-start PD. METHODS:A prospec...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Silva BC,Adelina E,Pereira BJ,Cordeiro L,Rodrigues CE,Duarte RJ,Abensur H,Elias RM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NGAL (neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin) is an acute phase protein, participating in antibacterial immunity. NGAL forms a complex with metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9), thereby increasing its activity and preventing its degradation. NGAL is freely filtered through the glomerular membrane and reabsorbed by endocyto...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Helanova K,Spinar J,Parenica J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This prospective, randomized study was to investigate the role of nicorandil in the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients with chronic renal dysfunction undergoing an elective coronary procedure. METHODS:A total of 252 eligible patients were enrolled in this study and allocated into t...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Fan Z,Li Y,Ji H,Jian X

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Aortic arch calcification (AoAC) is frequently detected in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients and is associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. We investigated the factors associated with AoAC and analyzed the relationship between the factors including bone-derived biomarkers and AoAC....

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Nitta K,Hanafusa N,Okazaki M,Komatsu M,Kawaguchi H,Tsuchiya K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:We previously showed that urine and serum Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) levels increased significantly with the degree of albuminuria in diabetes patients, but the reasons remain unclear. Consequently we aimed to determine whether there was an association between Ang-2, inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α and IL-18)...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： He FF,Li HQ,Huang QX,Wang QY,Jiang HJ,Chen S,Su H,Zhang C,Wang YM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to screen several novel genes associated with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and analyze the gene functions and signal pathways which were critical to RCCs with DNA microarray. METHODS:The gene expression profile of GSE781 was downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus database, including 9 RC...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Li W,Zhu W,Che J,Sun W,Liu M,Peng B,Zheng J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation examined the possible influence of urinary calcium excretion on the concentration of renal calbindin-D28k. Thiazide diuretics stimulate calcium transport across the epithelial cells of the distal tubule, which express calbindin-D28k in high concentrations. Calbindin-D28k is assumed to facilit...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Hemmingsen C,Staun M,Meibom K,Bang K,Olgaard K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uremic toxins have been shown to promote glomerular hypertrophy. The present study was performed to elucidate the relation between uremic toxins and tubulointerstitial changes. METHODS:Sixty male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent 2/3 nephrectomy (Nx; n = 30) and 4/5 Nx (n = 30). Experiments were initiated 2 wee...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Okada K,Matsumoto K,Takahashi S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, Chlamydia pneumoniae is the microorganism frequently implicated in the infection-based inflammatory atherogenous hypothesis. Although in vitro experimental data and initial sero-epidemiologic, pathology-based studies and antibiotic trials supported this interesting hypothesis, later data are conflicting. Som...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Tsirpanlis G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate whether the renoprotective effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) following 5/6 renal mass reduction is due in part to the potentiation of kinins. Three groups of rats with 5/6 renal mass reduction were studied during the 14 weeks following surgery. One grou...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： MacLaughlin M,Monserrat AJ,Muller A,Matoso M,Amorena C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The antiproteinuric effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors appears to vary depending on the ACE insertion (I)/deletion (D) genotype in non-diabetic nephropathy. This interaction may be overcome by using an angiotensin II receptor blocker. We evaluated the short-term antiproteinuric effect o...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Park HC,Choi HY,Kim BS,Kang SW,Choi KH,Ha SK,Lee HY,Han DS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonmetabolizable glucose analogue [(3)H]-2-deoxy-D-glucose ((3)H-2DG) was used to study glucose transport in cultured rat podocytes. Intracellular accumulation of (3)H-2DG was linear up to 20 min and was inhibited by cytochalasin B (80% inhibition) and by phlorizin (20% inhibition). Pretreatment with insulin stimu...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Lewko B,Bryl E,Witkowski JM,Latawiec E,Gołos M,Endlich N,Hähnel B,Koksch C,Angielski S,Kriz W,Stepinski J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is limited evidence on the etiology and outcomes of renal infarction. A provoking factor is identified only in one- to two-thirds of patients. METHODS:This is a retrospective observational study. The clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with acute renal infarction were studied; the sample...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： García-García A,Demelo-Rodríguez P,Ordieres-Ortega L,Cervilla-Muñoz E,García-Fernández-Bravo I,Pulfer MD,López-Aparicio A,Galeano-Valle F,Del Toro-Cervera J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The metabolic syndrome (MetS), as assessed using dichotomous criteria, is associated with increased risk of future chronic kidney disease (CKD), though this relationship is unclear among African Americans, who have lower risk for MetS but higher risk for CKD. METHODS:We performed logistic regression us...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： DeBoer MD,Filipp SL,Musani SK,Sims M,Okusa MD,Gurka M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The role of COX-2 for renal function during renal development, for physiology and pathophysiology of renal diseases and the side effects of available COX-2 inhibitors, has gained increasing interest. We aimed therefore to review the respective role of renal COX-2. METHODS:Review of relevant recent publ...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Krämer BK,Kammerl MC,Kömhoff M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis (TIF) is the common pathway of progressive chronic kidney disease. Inflammation has been widely accepted as the major driving force of TIF. Cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) is the first and rate-limiting enzyme in the transsulfuration pathway. CBS is considered to play pr...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Yuan X,Zhang J,Xie F,Tan W,Wang S,Huang L,Tao L,Xing Q,Yuan Q

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:This study aimed to investigate the potential beneficial anti-proteinuric effect of an add-on aldosterone blockade and the impact of the aldosterone escape phenomenon. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed data of 304 patients with persistent proteinuria, who were administered spironolactone (25 mg/day) ...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Kim HY,Bae EH,Ma SK,Kim SW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, the pathogenesis of nondipper hypertension remains largely unclear in patients without any renal or endocrine pathology. It is well known that overt hypothyroidism is strongly associated with diastolic hypertension. However, no study has addressed the pathogenic role of TSH, free T3 (FT3), and free T4 (FT4)...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Kanbay M,Turgut F,Karakurt F,Isik B,Alkan R,Akcay A,Yigitoglu R,Covic A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:This experimental study was designed to investigate protective and therapeutic effects of Dexpanthenol (Dxp), an alcoholic analogue of pantothenic acid, on kidney damage induced by ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) in rats. METHODS:Forty rats were randomly divided into a control group and 4 I/R groups (1 h is...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Altintas R,Parlakpinar H,Beytur A,Vardi N,Polat A,Sagir M,Odabas GP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive renal disease poses an increasing problem for the medical community. Though the causes of end-stage renal failure are multiple, the histologic pictures of chronic renal disease are remarkably similar being characterized by interstitial infiltration, fibrosis, tubular atrophy and dilatation. This similarity...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Strutz F,Müller GA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In uremic patients coronary surgery and the entire perioperative management is demanding. METHODS:We analyzed retrospectively data from all patients requiring chronic hemodialysis who under went coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) between January 1 2001 and December 31 2004 at the Deutsches Herzzentrum B...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Krabatsch T,Yeter R,Hetzer R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Interleukin (IL)-18, a member of the IL-1 cytokine superfamily, is recognized as an important regulator of immune responses. The aim of our study was to investigate the IL-18 levels in serum and urine from children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) during relapse and remission, and to evaluate th...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Kiliś-Pstrusińska K,Medyńska A,Zwolińska D,Wawro A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The deposition of β2-microglobulin induced by reactive inflammation causing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is one of the complications of dialysis-related amyloidosis in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. Air pollution levels, especially particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of <2.5 mm (PM...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Weng CH,Hu CC,Yen TH,Huang WH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cardiovascular disease is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Autonomic dysfunction is associated with an increased risk for all cardiovascular events in the general population and can be evaluated with heart rate variabil...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Lai S,Mangiulli M,Perrotta AM,Di Lazzaro Giraldi G,Testorio M,Rosato E,Cianci R,Gigante A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the effects of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) on lipid peroxidation and heme metabolism in the different constitutive suborgans of the kidney were determined. For this purpose, conjugated diene and malondialdehyde levels, as lipid peroxidation parameters, and porphyrin accumulation, uroporphyrinogen dec...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Fernández-Tomé MC,Billi de Catabbi SC,Aldonatti C,San Martin de Viale LC,Sterin-Speziale NB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Rapamycin inhibits cyst growth in polycystic kidney disease by targeting the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). To determine if this is a class effect of the mTOR inhibitors, we examined the effect of everolimus, the analogue of rapamycin, on disease progression in the Han:SPRD rat model of polycysti...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Wu M,Wahl PR,Le Hir M,Wackerle-Men Y,Wuthrich RP,Serra AL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), a biomarker of oxidative stress, is associated with an increased risk of diabetes and hypertension. However, it is not known whether higher serum GGT is independently associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Therefore, we examined the association between serum ...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Teppala S,Shankar A,Li J,Wong TY,Ducatman A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, single-stranded, noncoding RNAs that modulate many key biological processes by simultaneously suppressing multiple target genes. Among them, miR-26a, a conserved miRNA among vertebrates, is highly expressed in various tissues. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that miR-26a plays pivotal ...

journal_title：Kidney & blood pressure research

authors： Li X,Pan X,Fu X,Yang Y,Chen J,Lin W

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00