Bone strength: more than just bone density.

abstract：:In studying the metabolic effects of diet potassium (K+) variation in normal humans, we noted that varying diet K+ within its normal range influenced inorganic phosphorus (Pi) homeostasis and serum calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D) levels. In six men who ingested a constant whole-foods diet containing (per 70 kg bo...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sebastian A,Hernandez RE,Portale AA,Colman J,Tatsuno J,Morris RC Jr

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal tract malformations are, on occasion, associated with uterine malformations. The transcription factor hepatocyte nuclear factor (HNF)-1beta is expressed from the earliest stages of development of the Wolffian duct, the mesonephros and metanephros, and the Müllerian ducts in the mouse. In adult mice HNF...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Bingham C,Ellard S,Cole TR,Jones KE,Allen LI,Goodship JA,Goodship TH,Bakalinova-Pugh D,Russell GI,Woolf AS,Nicholls AJ,Hattersley AT

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the duodenal mucosa was evaluated in duodenal biopsy samples obtained from patients with moderate renal failure (MRF) and in dialysis patients (HD) in an effort to examine the possibility that changes in duodenal mucosa may contribute to the impaired calcium absorption in renal failure (RF). The effec...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Goldstein DA,Horowitz RE,Petit S,Haldimann B,Massry SG

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients initiating dialysis after a failed kidney transplant are a subgroup of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients who have not been characterized. Exposure to immunosuppressive medications differentiates these patients from the general incident end-stage renal disease (ESRD) population. METHODS:Data fro...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gill JS,Abichandani R,Khan S,Kausz AT,Pereira BJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe sepsis is often accompanied by acute kidney injury (AKI) and albuminuria. Here we studied whether the AKI and albuminuria associated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment in mice reflects impairment of the glomerular endothelium with its associated endothelial surface layer. LPS treatment decreased the abunda...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Xu C,Chang A,Hack BK,Eadon MT,Alper SL,Cunningham PN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although APOL1 high-risk genotype partially accounts for the increased susceptibility of blacks to chronic kidney disease (CKD), whether APOL1 associates differentially with mortality risk remains controversial. Here we evaluate the association between APOL1 genotype and risk of death and determine whether APOL1 statu...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ku E,Lipkowitz MS,Appel LJ,Parsa A,Gassman J,Glidden DV,Smogorzewski M,Hsu CY

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-(1-84) parathyroid hormone (PTH) fragments are large circulating carboxyl-terminal (C) fragments with a partially preserved amino-terminal (N) structure. hPTH (7-84), a synthetic surrogate, has been demonstrated to exert biologic effects in vivo and in vitro which are opposite to those of hPTH (1-34) on ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： D'Amour P,Brossard JH,Rousseau L,Nguyen-Yamamoto L,Nassif E,Lazure C,Gauthier D,Lavigne JR,Zahradnik RJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a combination of intra-operative digital photography and micro-biopsy we measured renal cortical and papillary changes in five patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and abundant calcium phosphate kidney stones. Major tissue changes were variable papillary flattening and retraction, dilation of the ducts of B...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Evan AE,Lingeman JE,Coe FL,Miller NL,Bledsoe SB,Sommer AJ,Williams JC,Shao Y,Worcester EM

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteopontin is an arginine-glycine-aspartate (RGD) containing secreted phosphoprotein recently shown to stimulate a local macrophage influx when injected subcutaneously in mice. We examined the effect of angiotensin II infusion on renal injury and osteopontin expression in the rat kidney by in situ hybridization and i...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Giachelli CM,Pichler R,Lombardi D,Denhardt DT,Alpers CE,Schwartz SM,Johnson RJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candidate biomarkers for vasculopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) include circulating endothelial cells and the recently identified endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) which, when shed, promotes a thrombotic diathesis. This study sought correlation between plasma levels of soluble EPCR and diseas...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sesin CA,Yin X,Esmon CT,Buyon JP,Clancy RM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical studies have shown that the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin II (Ang II) receptor antagonists decrease proteinuria and slow the progression of nephropathy in diabetes, indicating that Ang II plays an important role in the development of nephropathy. We have previously re...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Zhang SL,Filep JG,Hohman TC,Tang SS,Ingelfinger JR,Chan JS

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated glomerulonephritis involves innate and adaptive immune cells in the induction of autoimmunity and in autoimmune effector responses. Most Fcγ receptors (FcγRs) activate immune cells, but FcγRIIB, found in humans and mice on B cells and innate cells, is an inhibitor...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ooi JD,Gan PY,Chen T,Eggenhuizen PJ,Chang J,Alikhan MA,Odobasic D,Holdsworth SR,Kitching AR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D receptor agonists (VDRAs) inhibit the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and reduce podocyte loss and fibrosis over and above RAS blockade. Several studies in humans show that VDRAs are antiproteinuric and have the potential to delay the progression of renal disease. Whether VDRAs will accomplish this goal among...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Agarwal R

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguably, no cell biology related to the loss of renal function is more debated than the ontogeny of fibrosis in the kidney. Recent studies suggest that the fibroblasts depositing most of the excess extracellular matrix in diseased kidneys derive from epithelial cells versus pericytes resident within the kidney. Reich...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Nelson PJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monitoring of the levels of alloantibodies following transplantation might facilitate early diagnosis of chronic rejection (CR), the leading cause of renal allograft failure. Here, we used serial alloantibody surveillance to monitor patients with preoperative positive flow cytometric crossmatch (FCXM). Sixty-nine ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kimball PM,Baker MA,Wagner MB,King A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms responsible for renal hemodynamic alterations were studied in jaundiced (by bile-duct ligation) rabbits (BDL) 10 days after ligation of the biliary tract, in comparison with sham-operated rabbits (SO). Arterial hematocrit, plasma volume, blood pressure, abdominal inferior vena cava pressure, and heart rate ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Hishida A,Honda N,Sudo M,Nagase M

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early identification of renal transplant recipients at enhanced risk of developing acute and subclinical rejection would allow individualized adjustment of immunosuppression before functional graft injury occurs and would exclude these patients from drug-weaning studies. Protein and reverse transcriptase-polymeras...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Matz M,Beyer J,Wunsch D,Mashreghi MF,Seiler M,Pratschke J,Babel N,Volk HD,Reinke P,Kotsch K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The fibrinolytic system plays an important role in degrading fibrin-rich thrombi and in vascular and tissue remodeling. Elevated levels of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) can reduce the efficiency of the endogenous fibrinolytic system. Angiotensin (Ang) has been shown to regulate PAI-1 expression v...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Nakamura S,Nakamura I,Ma L,Vaughan DE,Fogo AB

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (THP) is a unique protein that is produced exclusively by cells of the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop (TALH). This study examined whether dietary salt altered renal THP production. METHODS:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were examined on days 1, 4, and 15 following placement in met...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ying WZ,Sanders PW

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of protein intake to urinary oxalate and glycolate excretion was examined in a large cohort (N = 101) of normal individuals on self-selected diets and in 11 individuals on controlled protein diets. On self-selected diets no correlation was detected between protein intake and urinary oxalate or glycola...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Holmes RP,Goodman HO,Hart LJ,Assimos DG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise immunofluorescence criteria for C3 glomerulopathy remain to be defined. Here we tested hierarchical immunofluorescence criteria with varying stringency for C3 glomerulopathy in a cohort with dense deposit disease as the gold standard and then applied these criteria to analyze the incidence of C3 glomerulopathy...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Hou J,Markowitz GS,Bomback AS,Appel GB,Herlitz LC,Barry Stokes M,D'Agati VD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal para-aminohippurate (PAH) clearances were predicted in 16 kidneys of eight hypertensive patients with renal artery stenosis, pyelonephritis, or obstructive nephropathy, without individual ureteral catheterization. Predictions of left or right kidney clearance (CL or CR) were based on roentgenographic renal front...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gutkin M,Perl W,Das BN,Chin B,Modlinger RS

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow (BM) cells are reported to contribute to the process of regeneration following myocardial infarction. The present study examined two independent clonal studies to determine the origin of bone marrow (BM)-derived cardiomyocytes. First, we transplanted single CD34(-)c-kit(+)Sca-1(+)lineage(-) side population...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Fukuda K,Fujita J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular calcification is a recognized risk factor for cardiovascular mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for vascular access calcification and to determine if patients with this disorder are at increased risk of death. Vascular access calcification wa...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Schlieper G,Krüger T,Djuric Z,Damjanovic T,Markovic N,Schurgers LJ,Brandenburg VM,Westenfeld R,Dimkovic S,Ketteler M,Grootendorst DC,Dekker FW,Floege J,Dimkovic N

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The renal 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11beta HSD2) enzyme inactivates 11-hydroxy steroids in the kidney, thereby protecting the nonselective mineralocorticoid (MR) receptor from occupation by glucocorticoids. Loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding 11beta HSD2 (HSD11B2) result in over...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Williams TA,Mulatero P,Filigheddu F,Troffa C,Milan A,Argiolas G,Parpaglia PP,Veglio F,Glorioso N

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential role of the glycoprotein hormone erythropoietin (Epo) in the control of red blood cell production is well established. Synthesis of Epo is induced in response to low oxygen (hypoxia). In response to stimulation, increases in serum Epo levels are paralleled by changes in the abundance of Epo mRNA. These c...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Göpfert T,Eckardt KU,Geb B,Kurtz A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have greatly expanded our knowledge of initial events that lead to epithelial cell polarity. Epithelial polarity is defined, in part, by apical cell-cell tight junctions that separate the plasma membrane into the apical domain and the basolateral domain, as well as the zonula adherens that mediate inter...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Wang Q,Margolis B

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adynamic bone disease (ABD) is increasingly recognized, especially in dialysis patients treated with oral calcium carbonate, vitamin D supplements, or supraphysiological dialysate calcium. We undertook this study to assess the effect of lowering dialysate calcium on episodes of hypercalcemia, serum parathyroid hormone...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Haris A,Sherrard DJ,Hercz G

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldosterone exerts its biological effects through binding to mineralocorticoid receptor (MR). Ligand binding induces a receptor transconformation within the ligand-binding domain and dissociation of associated proteins from the receptor. The ligand-activated receptor binds as a dimer to the response elements present i...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Hellal-Levy C,Fagart J,Souque A,Rafestin-Oblin ME

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular redox state is altered in a number of pathological conditions, including various forms of glomerular injury and diabetes. For example, glucose, via the pentose phosphate pathway generates NADPH, which maintains glutathione (GSH) (part of a major intracellular reducing system) in its reduced state. GSH in ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Shan Z,Tan D,Satriano J,Silbiger S,Schlondorff D

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00