Expanding the use of hepatitis C-viremic kidney donors.

abstract：:Multiphoton excitation fluorescence microscopy is a state-of-the-art confocal imaging technique ideal for deep optical sectioning of living tissues. It is capable of performing ultrasensitive, quantitative imaging of organ functions in health and disease with high spatial and temporal resolution which other imaging mo...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sipos A,Toma I,Kang JJ,Rosivall L,Peti-Peterdi J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Macrophage-mesangial cell interaction plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis. We established a novel system for continuous, real-time monitoring of cross-talk between macrophages and mesangial cells in vitro and ex vivo. METHODS:Rat mesangial cells were genetically engineered to prod...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Meng Y,Kasai A,Hiramatsu N,Hayakawa K,Takeda M,Shimizu F,Kawachi H,Yao J,Kitamura M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoregulatory ability of the renal vascular system in the split hydronephrotic kidney was quantitated with intravital microscopy. The luminal diameters of the arcuate and interlobular arteries as well as the afferent and efferent arterioles were measured. Glomerular blood flow was determined by the dual slit tech...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Steinhausen M,Blum M,Fleming JT,Holz FG,Parekh N,Wiegman DL

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular access failure is the main cause of morbidity in hemodialysis. Venous stenosis and subsequent thrombosis, as the result of intimal hyperplasia, is the major cause of vascular access failure. Intimal hyperplasia of the arteriovenous fistula (AVF) closely resembles the main histopathologic feature of ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Grandaliano G,Teutonico A,Allegretti A,Losappio R,Mancini A,Gesualdo L,Schena FP,Pertosa G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Executive Summary of the KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Care of Kidney Transplant Recipients is presented in this issue of Kidney International. This guideline will require careful attention for implementation in the context of available resources within each country, especially those with underdevelope...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Delmonico FL

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrons possess a segmental organization where each segment is specialized for the secretion and reabsorption of particular solutes. The developmental control of nephron segment patterning remains one of the enigmas within the field of renal biology. Achieving an understanding of the mechanisms that direct nephron se...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Wingert RA,Davidson AJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renal effects of a single intravenous dose of two different E. coli lipopolysaccharides (LPS 0111:B4 and LPS 0127:B8), at the same dose of 100 micrograms/kg, were evaluated in euvolemic Munich-Wistar (MW) rats by whole kidney clearance techniques and micropuncture studies. Following LPS infusion, a significant dec...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lugon JR,Boim MA,Ramos OL,Ajzen H,Schor N

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasopressin inhibitor tolvaptan is clinically effective in slowing growth of renal cysts and reduction in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), but these effects are mitigated by the associated polyuria. Changes of total kidney volume, eGFR, and sympto...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Horie S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) and activated protein-1 (AP-1) are transcription factors that regulate many genes involved in the progression of renal disease. Recent data have shown that NF-kappaB is activated in tubules and glomeruli in various experimental models of renal injury. In vitro studies also s...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Mezzano SA,Barría M,Droguett MA,Burgos ME,Ardiles LG,Flores C,Egido J

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective vasopressin V2-receptor antagonist tolvaptan is eliminated almost exclusively by non-renal mechanisms. As renal impairment can influence the pharmacokinetics of drugs even when eliminated by non-renal mechanisms, we evaluated the effect of renal insufficiency on the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of t...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Shoaf SE,Bricmont P,Mallikaarjun S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal iron handling was characterized in three experimental models of the nephrotic syndrome: puromycin aminonucleoside, adriamycin and nephrotoxic serum. In adriamycin-induced nephrotic syndrome, which has previously been shown to result from alterations in pore size of the filtration barrier, the transferrin leak wa...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Alfrey AC,Hammond WS

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, the in vivo pathogenic role of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies (ANCA) in ANCA-associated vasculitis has been challenged by Abdel-Salam et al. In their report, they observed that ANCA directed against proteinase 3 (PR3) cannot bind to their target autoantigen PR3 on circulating neutrophils ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Van Rossum AP,van der Geld YM,Limburg PC,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen Center hemodialysis (CHD) patients, 13 continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, and 10 normals matched by group for age and sex were compared using a battery of evoked (EP) and event-related (ERP) brain potential measures to determine the effects on central nervous system (CNS) functioning o...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Marsh JT,Brown WS,Wolcott D,Landsverk J,Nissenson AR

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal disease is commonly associated with hyperlipidemia and correlates with glomerular accumulation of atherogenic lipoproteins, for example, lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], and mesangial hypercellularity. Specific binding of Lp(a) to mesangial cells and induction of c-myc and c-fos expression has been demonstrated...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Mondorf UF,Piiper A,Herrero M,Olbrich HG,Bender M,Gross W,Scheuermann E,Geiger H

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied renal autoregulation in pancreatectomized Munich-Wistar diabetic rats and in their sham-operated controls. In a second experiment we studied renal autoregulation in untreated and insulin treated streptozotocin diabetic Munich-Wistar rats and their nondiabetic controls. In the first experiment the diabetic r...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Mauer SM,Brown DM,Steffes MW,Azar S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indomethacin has been used to lower proteinuria in human glomerular diseases with controversial results. The mechanism of indomethacin beneficial effects has not been established. A possible explanation is that indomethacin reduces proteinuria by inhibiting the synthesis of renal prostaglandins (PGs); however, appropr...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Zoja C,Benigni A,Verroust P,Ronco P,Bertani T,Remuzzi G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteopontin (OPN) is a secreted acidic glycoprotein that has potent monocyte chemoattractant and adhesive properties. Up-regulation of tubular OPN expression is thought to promote interstitial macrophage infiltration in experimental nephritis; however, the role of OPN in glomerular lesions, particularly crescent forma...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lan HY,Yu XQ,Yang N,Nikolic-Paterson DJ,Mu W,Pichler R,Johnson RJ,Atkins RC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In uremic patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism (2HPT), nodular hyperplasia of parathyroid gland shows a monoclonal pattern of cell proliferation, in which a decreased density of vitamin D receptor (VDR) also is demonstrated. The present study aimed at elucidating the mechanism of parathyroid cell prol...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tokumoto M,Tsuruya K,Fukuda K,Kanai H,Kuroki S,Hirakata H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remnant kidney model was produced in mice by unilateral nephrectomy and partial infarction of the remaining kidney. Control mice underwent laparotomy only. The mice were studied for up to 44 weeks. No quantitative differences were noted in systolic arterial pressure, proteinuria, or histopathology between control ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kren S,Hostetter TH

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is associated with natriuresis, whereas estrogen has been shown to be renoprotective in diabetic nephropathy and may independently regulate renal sodium reabsorption. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of 17-beta estradiol (E(2)) replacement to diabetic, ovariectomized (OVX) female ra...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Riazi S,Maric C,Ecelbarger CA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary microvesicles, such as 40-100 nm exosomes and 100-1000 nm microparticles, contain many proteins that may serve as biomarkers of renal disease. Microvesicles have been isolated by ultracentrifugation or nanomembrane ultrafiltration from normal urine; however, little is known about the efficiency of these method...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Rood IM,Deegens JK,Merchant ML,Tamboer WP,Wilkey DW,Wetzels JF,Klein JB

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a widely accepted form of renal replacement therapy (RRT), concerns remain regarding the bioincompatible nature of standard PD fluid. In order to evaluate whether a newly formulated fluid of neutral pH, and containing low levels of glucose degradation products (GDP), resu...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Williams JD,Topley N,Craig KJ,Mackenzie RK,Pischetsrieder M,Lage C,Passlick-Deetjen J,Euro Balance Trial Group.

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the degradation of heme, converting heme to biliverdin, during which iron is released and carbon monoxide (CO) is emitted; biliverdin is subsequently converted to bilirubin by biliverdin reductase. At least two isozymes possess HO activity: HO-1 represents the isozyme...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Nath KA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the progression of renal disease to end stage is strongly correlated with tubulointerstitial changes, the control of the fibrotic process within the interstitium is poorly understood. Basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) has been implicated as a major growth factor involved in fibroblast activation a...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Clayton A,Thomas J,Thomas GJ,Davies M,Steadman R

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia can contribute to chronic allograft injury by limiting oxygen delivery to tissues, particularly in the tubulointerstitium. To determine mechanisms by which erythropoietin (EPO) prevents chronic allograft injury we utilized a rat model of full MHC-mismatched kidney transplantation (Wistar Furth donor and Lewis r...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Cassis P,Gallon L,Benigni A,Mister M,Pezzotta A,Solini S,Gagliardini E,Cugini D,Abbate M,Aiello S,Rocchetta F,Scudeletti P,Perico N,Noris M,Remuzzi G

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody responses to antigens are impaired in humans and animals with chronic renal failure (CRF), and parathyroid hormone (PTH) inhibits Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) or pokeweed mitogen (PWM)-induced antibody production by B cells from normal subjects. Since CRF is associated with secondary hyperparathyroidis...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gaciong Z,Alexiewicz JM,Massry SG

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Only few noninvasive methods have the potential to quantitate renal blood flow (RBF) in humans. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a clinical imaging method that can be used to measure the tissue blood flow noninvasively. The purpose of this study was to validate PET measurement of RBF using 15O-labeled w...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Juillard L,Janier MF,Fouque D,Lionnet M,Le Bars D,Cinotti L,Barthez P,Gharib C,Laville M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of IgA nephropathy and pregnancy on each other were evaluated in 118 women who conceived 168 times between 1970 and 1988. Rates of spontaneous abortion, normal delivery, live birth and perinatal death were 9, 66, 87 and 4%, respectively. Infants born to women with glomerular filtration rates (GFR) lower th...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Abe S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Predicting renal survival in primary focal glomerulosclerosis from the time of presentation. BACKGROUND:To predict the risk of developing chronic renal failure in patients with primary focal glomerulosclerosis (FGS) using predictors available at the time of presentation, a retrospective analysis was perform...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Chitalia VC,Wells JE,Robson RA,Searle M,Lynn KL

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, intravenous cyclophosphamide pulses with oral corticosteroids were regarded standard therapy for proliferative lupus nephritis (LN). Azathioprine, a less toxic alternative, was never proven to be inferior. In the first Dutch lupus nephritis study (enrollment between 1995 and 2001), we randomized 87 pro...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Grootscholten C,Ligtenberg G,Hagen EC,van den Wall Bake AW,de Glas-Vos JW,Bijl M,Assmann KJ,Bruijn JA,Weening JJ,van Houwelingen HC,Derksen RH,Berden JH,Dutch Working Party on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00