Podocytes and glomerular function with aging.

abstract：:Although systemic hypertension is a common clinical condition, hypertensive emergencies are distinctly unusual in clinical practice. There are some situations, however, that qualify as hypertensive emergencies or urgencies. It is important, therefore, to diagnose these conditions because immediate treatment of severe ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Fenves AZ,Ram CV

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of natriuretic peptides as key regulators of natriuresis and vasodilatation, and the appreciation that their secretion is under the control of cardiac hemodynamic and neurohumoral factors, has caused wide interest. The natriuretic peptides are structurally similar, but genetically distinct peptides ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Dhingra H,Roongsritong C,Kurtzman NA

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCA) are the likely cause for necrotizing small-vessel vasculitis and crescentic glomerulonephritis. Unlike other forms of crescentic glomerulonephritis induced by immune complexes or anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies that have conspicuous vessel wall immunoglobul...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Charles Jennette J,Xiao H,Hu P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kidney plays a critical role in regulating water homeostasis through specific proteins highly expressed in the kidney, called aquaporins, allowing water permeation at a high rate. This brief review focuses on some nephropathies associated with impaired urinary concentrating ability and in particular analyzes the r...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Procino G,Mastrofrancesco L,Mira A,Tamma G,Carmosino M,Emma F,Svelto M,Valenti G

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides loss of life and property, natural disasters result in a number of renal challenges, either by the creation of rhabdomyolysis and crush-induced acute kidney injury or by the destruction of existing dialysis facilities, leaving chronic dialysis patients and kidney transplanted patients without access to their r...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Lameire N,Sever MS,Van Biesen W,Vanholder R

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the prohibitive costs of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) care for certain countries and the increasing incidence of ESRD worldwide, alternative methods of funding dialysis care are increasingly necessary. We describe the paradigm of the National Kidney Foundation of Singapore (NKF-S), the provider of subsidized d...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Ramirez SP,Hsu SI,Nandakumar M,Friedman EA,Durai TT,Owen WF Jr

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranous nephropathy (MN), the most common cause of adult-onset nephrotic syndrome (NS) in Caucasians, is associated commonly with the secondary complications of hyperlipidemia and hypercoagulability. These may increase the risk for cardiovascular disease, alter the rate of progression of renal disease, and raise th...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Nickolas TL,Radhakrishnan J,Appel GB

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking (CS) has been associated with augmented progression of nephropathies responsible for the 4 major causes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States. CS has well-described ways by which it causes tissue injury in other organ systems and the mechanisms by which it adversely affects nephropat...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Wesson DE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with renal failure. Patients with chronic kidney disease have significant CVD, and carry a high cardiovascular burden by the time they commence renal replacement therapy (RRT). The severity of CVD that has been observed in dialysis ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Jaradat MI,Molitoris BA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia, highly prevalent in well-nourished patients with chronic renal failure and in uremia, causes toxic effects that can be envisioned in terms of cardiovascular risk increase. However, its effects on cellular metabolism and on gene expression, not to mention receptor regulation, only recently are bei...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Perna AF,Capasso R,Acanfora F,Satta E,Lombardi C,Ingrosso D,Violetti E,Romano MM,De Santo NG

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of organ function and disease processes will be translated in the next millennium into new therapeutic approaches to a wide range of clinical disorders, including acute and chronic renal failure. Central to these new therapies are the developing fields of gen...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Humes HD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingolipids, including ceramides, glycosphingolipids, sphingomyelin, and sphingosine-1-phosphate, have been recognized as important molecules that regulate critical cellular functions. Although originally studied in the context of lysosomal storage diseases, the roles of these compounds in more common disorders invo...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Shayman JA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several published series of pregnancy in patients with nonimmunoglobulin A mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (most of whom have thin basement membrane nephropathy [TBMN]). The aim of the present study was to review the maternal and fetal outcomes of pregnancy in women with TBMN. The medical and obst...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Packham D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is increasing in incidence and one third of newly diagnosed cases already are metastatic. The metastatic spread of solid tumors renders RCC incurable by surgical resection and consequently more difficult to treat. New molecular-targeted therapies have played a pivotal role in RCC treatment. ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Yang DC,Chen CH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goodpasture (GP) syndrome is a form of anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease, in which autoantibodies bind to alpha3(IV) collagen in GBM causing rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and pulmonary hemorrhage. The conformational GP epitopes have been mapped to 2 regions within the noncollagenous (NC1) domain...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Borza DB,Neilson EG,Hudson BG

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase inhibitors have long been used in experimental studies as well as in clinical practice to reduce urinary protein excretion in proteinuric renal diseases. However, the mechanisms by which this treatment limits glomerular filtration of proteins are not fully elucidated. We will review the cellular and mol...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Remuzzi A,Remuzzi G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dent's disease and familial hypomagnesemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis (FHHNC) are inherited diseases in which hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis, and renal failure are prominent features. Dent's disease resembles a Fanconi syndrome, with impaired reabsorption in the proximal tubule; FHHNC, with urinary los...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Knohl SJ,Scheinman SJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diuretics commonly are administered in disorders of sodium balance. Loop diuretics inhibit the Na-K-2Cl transporter and also increase calcium excretion. They are often used in the treatment of hypercalcemia. Thiazide diuretics block the thiazide-sensitive NaCl transporter in the distal convoluted tubule, and can decre...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Grieff M,Bushinsky DA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular remodeling and hypertrophy-hyperplasia of the heart and kidney are the hallmarks of hypertensions, being involved in the long-term maintenance of elevated blood pressure and the development of cardiovascular and renal hypertension. Both augmented proliferation and unscheduled programmed cell death (apoptosis)...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Orlov SN,Tremblay J,Deblois D,Hamet P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renal biopsy provides critical diagnostic and prognostic information to clinicians including cases of acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and allograft dysfunction. Today, biopsy specimens are read using a combination of light microscopy, electron microscopy, and indirect immunofluorescence, with a limite...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Malone AF,Wu H,Humphreys BD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apical membrane epithelial Na(+) channel subunit (ENaC) in series with the basolateral Na(+)/K(+)-adenosine triphosphatase mediates collecting duct Na(+) reabsorption. Aldosterone induces αENaC gene transcription, which appears to be rate limiting for ENaC activity in this segment. Although this response has long ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Kone BC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, it has become apparent that parietal epithelial cells (PECs) play an important role within the renal glomerulus, in particular in diseased conditions. In this review, we examine current knowledge about the role of PECs and their interactions with podocytes in development and under physiological condit...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Smeets B,Moeller MJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of hypertension as a cardiovascular risk factor increases progressively with aging, but diastolic blood pressure plateaus at age 50, which leads to a rise in pulse pressure in the elderly. Thus, isolated systolic hypertension with a widened pulse pressure is the most common type of hypertension seen in ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Meeks WM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red cell production in chronic kidney disease is usually too low to maintain a normal haemoglobin, and thus anaemia develops in a large proportion of patients. The ability to stimulate erythropoiesis in the bone marrow by the use of therapeutic agents has only been possible in the last 20 years, initially with recombi...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Macdougall IC

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex pathophysiology, cardio-renal syndrome (CRS), has been redefined in recent years. One subtype is acute renocardiac CRS, or CRS type 3. This syndrome is intended to comprise situations in which acute kidney injury (AKI) results in acute cardiac injury or dysfunction. The pathophysiology of CRS type 3 is not w...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Chuasuwan A,Kellum JA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune-mediated nephritis is a common complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It is now clear that multiple and independent mechanisms contribute to disease onset and pathogenesis, which may explain the remarkable phenotypic and histopathological heterogeneity observed in human SLE. Identification and char...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Foster MH,Kelley VR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in the setting of shock. Hemodynamic instability is a risk factor for the development of AKI, and pathophysiological mechanisms include loss of renal perfusion pressure and impaired microcirculation. Although restoration of mean arterial pressure (MAP) may mitigate the risk of AKI t...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Busse LW,Ostermann M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vacuolar H(+)-ATPase is a multisubunit protein consisting of a peripheral catalytic domain (V(1)) that binds and hydrolyzes adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and provides energy to pump H(+) through the transmembrane domain (V(0)) against a large gradient. This proton-translocating vacuolar H(+)-ATPase is present in bo...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Valles P,Lapointe MS,Wysocki J,Batlle D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, renal ischemia has been regarded as central to the pathogenesis of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI). Accordingly, hemodynamic management of SA-AKI has emphasized restoration of renal perfusion, whereas, experimentally, ischemia reperfusion models have been emphasized. However, in human bei...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Prowle JR,Bellomo R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the beginning of the first described hemodialysis in 1889, history has shown an exponential evolvement of systems that have resulted in greater safety, efficiency, and broader utilization. It took 60 years, 1947, for the technology to be used in a clinical setting in North America, treating acute renal failure. C...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Van Stone JC

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00