Non-Transgenic Mouse Models of Kidney Disease.

abstract：:The protective efficacy of three schedules of a recombinant hepatitis B vaccine was evaluated in 42 patients undergoing dialysis at a teaching hospital. The rate of seroconversion after vaccination was highest (82.3%) among the recipients of three 20-micrograms doses (i.e. double the conventional dose for healthy adul...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Mitwalli A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At present, the determination of dry weight in patients on hemodialysis is largely made empirically by trial and error. Extracellular volume (ECV) assessment by bioimpedance analysis (BIA) is a preferable technique for determining dry weight, and it also provides useful data on body composition. METHODS:We ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Chen YC,Chen HH,Yeh JC,Chen SY

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant hypertension and high plasma renin activity was found in a 39-year-old woman with an aldosterone-producing adenoma. Only 3 similar cases have been previously reported, and all patients died before or after identification of the adenoma. The present paper documents the first reported case of a successfully ma...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ideishi M,Kishikawa K,Kinoshita A,Sasaguri M,Ikeda M,Takebayashi S,Arakawa K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradual loss of cell viability was observed during in vitro incubation of peritoneal cells from chronically uremic mice in commercial peritoneal dialysis solutions. The magnitude of this cytotoxicity toward peritoneal cells harvested from uremic mice and controls was comparable. Resident peritoneal cells were always...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Gallimore B,Gagnon RF,Stevenson MM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HCV is seen as an emergent problem in Dialysis Units; in fact, the patients of these centers are at high risk for blood-transmitted infections, through coming microepidemies. For this reason and using the same method, we have studied the prevalence of anti-HCV and virus-derived hepatitis in a dialytic population of 10...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Scotto G,Savastano AM,Forcella M,Tantimonaco G,Amato G,Salatino G,Pappani A,Stella I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid P component (AP) is a matrix glycoprotein of adult renal glomeruli. To establish whether the deposition of AP in glomeruli is an age-related phenomenon, this study used indirect immunofluorescence (IF) to investigate 34 renal biopsy specimens and 11 renal autopsy specimens. The biopsy specimens were taken from...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Rantala IS,Helin HJ,Mustonen JT,Reunala T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Home hemodialysis is usually considered a superior therapy, whose decline is related to demographic, social, psychological and financial factors as well as to competition with renal transplantation and PD. METHODS:A home hemodialysis program was started in November 1998 in the University of Torino, Italy (2...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Piccoli GB,Bermond F,Mezza E,Quaglia M,Pacitti A,Jeantet A,Segoloni GP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean renal blood flow (MRBF), cortical blood flow (CBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), heart rate, arterial blood pressure, Na+ and K+ excretion were determined before and 10 min after intrarenal administration of dihydroergocristine (0.017 mg/kg b.w.) in 13 patients suffering from liver cirrhosis. Cardiac output ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Gatta A,Merkel C,Grassetto M,Milani L,Zuin R,Ruol A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of a 50-year-old male with end-stage renal failure accompanied with congenital heart disease and polycythemia. After he had received continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis for 1 year, he still remained polycythemic and his serum erythropoietin titer, assayed using fetal mouse liver ce...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Muto S,Asano Y,Hosoda S,Shionoya S,Miura Y,Urabe A,Takaku F

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two observers, unaware of each other's findings and of the diagnosis, examined red cells in the urine of 109 patients by phase-contrast microscopy. All specimens were examined uncentrifuged by inverted microscopy, and 48 of the 109 were also examined under a light microscope after centrifugation. We were unable to con...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Venkat Raman G,Pead L,Lee HA,Maskell R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a cytokine which plays an important role in the division, proliferation and migration of endothelial cells. In the kidney, VEGF expression is found in glomerular podocytes and in tubular epithelial cells, which may result in acute inflammatory reactions. METHODS:...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Prakash S,Agrawal S,Kumar S,Prasad N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During chronic chlorthalidone treatment of patients with essential hypertension, distal tubular sodium reabsorption is continuously inhibited. At the same time, sodium balance is maintained by an increase of the proximal tubular sodium reabsorption. In the present study, we investigated whether this increase is caused...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： van Schaik BA,Geyskes GG,Dorhout Mees EJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombospondin (TSP) is a multifunctional glycoprotein that is synthesized by a variety of cells including mesangial cells (MCs). To clarify the effect of TSP on the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy, we studied the effect of glucose concentrations on TSP synthesis in cultured human MCs. Thereafter, the effects of ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tada H,Isogai S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal biopsy specimens from 8 patients with IgA nephropathy (Berger's disease) were examined immunocytochemically at the light and electron microscopic levels with peroxidase-labeled antibodies to IgA, IgM, J chain and secretory component. In 2 of the 8 specimens heavy deposits of IgA, but no IgM, were found in the me...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Komatsu N,Nagura H,Watanabe K,Nomoto Y,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computerized tomography (CT) has the advantage of allowing the isolation of trabecular bone of the axial skeleton, which is the more sensitive to metabolic changes. By means of single-energy X-ray CT we have devised a method for assessing trabecular bone mass (TBM) at L-4 vertebral body, which has an acceptable reprod...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Torres A,Lorenzo V,Gonzalez-Posada JM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunofluorescence, we studied 19 patients with IgA nephropathy to determine whether the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 in glomeruli might reflect the disease activity. The relationship between the expression of ICAM-1 and the infiltration of lymphocytes, monocytes and polymorphonuclear l...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tomino Y,Ohmuro H,Kuramoto T,Shirato I,Eguchi K,Sakai H,Okumura K,Koide H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the recommendations and outcomes for all patients with diabetes mellitus and end-stage renal disease referred to the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont from 1971 through December 1983. During this period, we recommended transplantation in 53 of 73 patients evaluated. Thirty-two transplants were performed i...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Rimmer JM,Sussman M,Foster R,Gennari FJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to undergo spontaneous and induced interleukin-1 (IL-1) production was examined in 10 healthy controls and in 10 patients undergoing intermittent hemodialysis (HD) using cuprophane membranes. Extracellular and cytoplasmic IL-1 activity was assayed by biologic a...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Blumenstein M,Schmidt B,Ward RA,Ziegler-Heitbrock HW,Gurland HJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preparation for performance of renal clearances in the conscious dog is described. The important aspect of the technique is the use of a Pavlov sling and a specially designed restraining apparatus. Of most importance is the use of a 7 French Swan-Ganz balloon-tipped catheter for urinary bladder catheterization. The ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Garner D,Laks MM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of chitosan-coated dialdehyde cellulose (chitosan DAC), a newly developed oral adsorbent for urea and ammonia, were examined in a glomerulonephritis model in rats. Mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis accompanied with proteinuria was induced by an intravenous injection of anti-rat Thy-1.1 monoclonal ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yagi M,Kato S,Nishitoba T,Sato H,Kobayashi N,Iinuma N,Nagano N

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 12 weeks following 5/6 nephrectomy in rats with moderate uremia (creatinine 0.7-1.2 mg/100 ml, BUN 53-89 mg/100 ml), no significant increases in total soft tissue calcification were observed. The calcium concentration of skeletal muscle remained unchanged at 4, 8, and 12 weeks after surgery. A slight but no...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ellis KJ,Martino A,Yasumura S,Brook D,Cohn SH,Letteri JM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two cases of patients with analgesic nephropathy presenting with the symptoms of hypercalcaemia, and who were found to have transitional cell carcinomas of the renal pelvis. On removal of the tumours, calcium levels fell to normal, indicating that a humoral factor produced by the tumour caused the hypercalca...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Derbyshire ND,Asscher AW,Matthews PN

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is a rare disease caused by mutations in the vasopressin V2 receptor (AVPR2) gene. We analyzed the AVPR2 gene in 6 unrelated Korean families with X-linked NDI, and found 6 novel mutations. Two of them were missense point mutations, 2 were short deletions causing frameshift...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Cheong HI,Park HW,Ha IS,Moon HN,Choi Y,Ko KW,Jun JK

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary calcifications are known to occur in patients with chronic renal failure. Recently, scintigrams with bone-seeking radionuclides have been used to detect subclinical pulmonary calcium deposits. We studied 18 children on maintenance dialysis without evidence of pulmonary calcification on chest X-ray. Four chil...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Drachman R,Baillet G,Gagnadoux MF,de Vernejoul P,Broyer M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of parathyroid hormone (PTH) infusion on antioxidant enzyme activity and lipid peroxidation of erythrocytes in five-sixths nephrectomized (Nx) rats. Five-sixths Nx rats had a higher osmotic fragility in red blood cells (RBC). Thyroparathyroidectomy (TPTX) effecti...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Chen SM,Young TK

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old boy developed Kaposi's sarcoma and progressive T lymphocyte deficiency 5 years after cadaveric kidney transplantation for end-stage renal disease. He had received 17 individual red blood cell transfusions prior to and during transplantation in 1980. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was cultured from b...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Malekzadeh MH,Church JA,Siegel SE,Mitchell WG,Opas L,Lieberman E

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51-year-old Japanese man was referred for the evaluation of persistent hyponatremia. The serum sodium level remained around 120 mmol/l despite mild water restriction. His past history included chronic alcoholism, myocardial infarction and lumbar disc herniation. Carbamazepine (200 mg, b.i.d.) has been used for more ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kamiyama T,Iseki K,Kawazoe N,Takishita S,Fukiyama K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopexamine hydrochloride is a synthetic dopamine analogue recently developed to improve myocardial and renal performance in patients suffering from low cardiac output states. The present study was designed to assess the pharmacological profile and the anatomical localization of [3H]-dopexamine binding sites within the...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Napoleone P,Cavallotti C,Ricci A,Amenta F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradykinin (BK) elicits extracellular-dependent [Ca2+](i) elevations in mouse mesangial cells (MMC) that are not blocked by verapamil, nifedipine, L-nicardipine, NiCl(2), or LaCl(3). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the mechanisms involved in calcium influx induced by BK in MMC. [Ca2+](i) was analyzed thro...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Campos AH,Calixto JB,Schor N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate food sensitization, the human basophil degranulation test (HBDT), usually used for allergy diagnosis, was performed in 34 idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) patients, classified as minimal change glomerular disease, with or without atopic manifestations, and in 19 blood donors; five food allergens (wheat ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lagrue G,Heslan JM,Belghiti D,Sainte-Laudy J,Laurent J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00