Urine osmolarity predicts the body weight-reduction response to tolvaptan in chronic kidney disease patients: a retrospective, observational study.

abstract：:Serum prolactin levels were elevated in male Sprague-Dawley rats with acute renal failure induced by glycerol administration. Specific prolactin binding to kidney membrane preparations was reduced in glycerol and antirat glomerular basement membrane serum-treated rats, after morphological and biochemical acute renal f...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Dobbie JW,Mountjoy K,Cowden EA,Allison ME,Ratcliffe JG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific lipid alterations in plasma and four different tissues, as well as the activities of plasma lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) and tissue lipolytic enzymes were determined in experimental nephrotic and control rats. In nephrotic rats, the cholesterol level in the heart was significantly increased...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Agbedana ED,Yamamoto T,Moriwaki Y,Suda M,Takahashi S,Higashino K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acid-base disturbances are frequent in critically ill patients. Arterial blood gas (ABG) is the gold standard in the diagnosis of these disturbances, but it is invasive with potential hazards. For patients with a central venous catheter, venous blood gas (VBG) sampling may be an alternative, less-invasive di...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Schrauben SJ,Negoianu D,Costa C,Cohen RM,Goldfarb S,Fuchs BD,Berns JS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 55-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital, complaining of general malaise, muscular weakness, anorexia and weight loss. She had a history of ingesting of a certain germanium (Ge) compound over the preceding 19 months, with a total dose of 47 g as Ge element. She was found to have renal failure (blood urea nitro...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Takeuchi A,Yoshizawa N,Oshima S,Kubota T,Oshikawa Y,Akashi Y,Oda T,Niwa H,Imazeki N,Seno A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24-hour urinary excretion of kallikrein (K) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), which reflects their intrarenal synthesis, was measured in 7 normal women (NW), 10 women with essential hypertension (EH), 26 normal pregnant women (NP), 12 women with hypertension in pregnancy (HP), and 4 women with toxemia. All pregnant wom...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kovatz S,Arber I,Korzets Z,Rathaus M,Ben Aderet N,Bernheim J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic hypercalciuria, though a common cause of nephrolithiasis, has not been recognized to cause hypocalcemia and severe bone disease. We describe an adolescent with idiopathic hypercalciuria who presented initially with severe hypocalcemia and osteoporosis and this was later complicated by recurrent renal calcul...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Wong CK,Pun KK,Tam SC,Tsui EY,Kung AW,Lam KS,Wang CC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To probe renal hemodynamic measurements in relation to simultaneous systemic hemodynamic measurements in normal, adult, conscious dogs on a magnesium-deficient diet, 6 experimental animals were given 4 weeks of a magnesium-deficient diet compared to 9 animals whose dietary magnesium was normal. Systemic hemodynamics w...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Zawada ET Jr,TerWee JA,McClung DE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pruritus is a common symptom among patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis. However, its etiology remains unclear. In an attempt to clarify its cause we tried to correlate pruritus and its intensity with several serological variables in 94 hemodialysis patients. Our results show that higher serum aluminum concentra...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Friga V,Linos A,Linos DA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bleeding is the most frequent complication of kidney biopsy. Although bleeding risk in patients with AA amyloidosis after kidney biopsy has not been studied in a large population, AA amyloidosis has long been perceived as a risk factor for bleeding. The aim of the present study was to evaluate post-biopsy bl...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Altindal M,Yildirim T,Turkmen E,Unal M,Boga I,Yilmaz R,Arici M,Altun B,Erdem Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical survey of the literature suggests that elevated serum uric acid is definitely associated with hypertension and may function as an independent risk factor in the development of this disease. The possible role of an elevated serum uric acid as an independent risk factor for the development of ischemic heart d...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tweeddale MG,Fodor JG

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible role of altered renal prostaglandin metabolism in the generation of post-obstruction diuresis (POD) was examined in 16 adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. Inhibition of cyclooxygenase by the administration of a combination of two nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), meclofenamate and indomethacin in ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kauker ML,Zawada ET

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a 2-hour 47Ca absorption test, significant depression of active calcium absorption was demonstrated in 48 vitamin D untreated haemodialysis patients. This malabsorption of calcium could be corrected by the daily oral administration of 1--2 microgram of 1alphaOHD3 and 1--1.5 microgram of 1,25(OH)2D3. 5 microgram ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Pierides AM,Aljama P,Kerr DN,Scott M,Norman AW

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：: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：:Previously, we have shown that insulin binding (IB) to erythrocytes was decreased in uremic patients and that hemodialysis corrected the receptor defect. In the present study cross-incubation experiments were performed using uremic and control erythrocytes and plasma. Incubation of control erythrocytes with uremic pla...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Milutinović S,Breyer D,Janković N,Molnar V,Stefović A,Rocić B

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the clinical and immunopathological effects of dilazep hydrochloride (dilazep) on IgA nephropathy of ddY mice. Group I (early-treatment group, n = 10) was orally treated with 300 mg/kg body weight of this drug from 12 weeks of age until 60 weeks of age, and group II (late-treatment group, n = 10) was als...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hayashi T,Kaneko S,Thang NT,Shou I,Shirato I,Tomino Y

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of room temperature incubation of Microstix-3 specimens to detect urinary tract infection was studied. This procedure, if successful, would allow home monitoring of patients and eliminate the need for an incubator. Four Microstix-3 strips were dipped into each of 1,241 urine specimens and incubated at ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Akriotis VJ,Arbus GS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of antimitotic chemotherapy in hemodialysis patients is not yet well codified, and each individual decision remains difficult. We report the case of a 68-year-old hemodialyzed man who developed a squamous cell carcinoma of the upper third of the esophagus. Necessarily disabling surgery was rejected, and three ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Rebibou JM,Chauffert B,Dumas M,Mousson C,Bone MC,Tanter Y,Rifle G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which intercurrent bacterial infections are associated with increased tissue injury in some forms of glomerulonephritis may include complement activation by bacteria and subsequent increased glomerular neutrophil (PMN) infiltration. We have studied the effect of complement activation after cobra veno...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Savige JA,Dash AC,Rees AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal and streptozotocin diabetic rats were subjected to ischemic injury by unilateral renal artery occlusion for 60 min. The cortical and the medullary oxygen consumption (QO2) in the postischemic and the control, contralateral nonischemic, kidneys were measured 1 h, 1 day, and 1, 2 and 4 weeks for normal rats and 1...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kuramochi G,Homma S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a cause of biopsy-proven acute kidney injury, more common in the elderly. Treatment requires immunosuppression, which can have significant toxic effects. The aim of this study was to assess whether morbidity and mortality that are a...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Judge PK,Reschen ME,Haynes R,Sharples EJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Diseases affecting both the lung and the kidney have grave prognosis and serious diagnostic and therapeutic consequences. Here, 3 cases of pulmonary-renal syndrome caused by antiphospholipid syndrome are reported. The patients presented with dyspnea, renal insufficiency, pulmonary infiltrates on chest X-ray and areas ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Henning BF,Gröne HJ,Tepel M,Büchner N,Kirchner J,Zidek W

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:We studied complexes composed of C1q and beta 2-microglobulin (C1q.beta 2M) or serum amyloid P-component (C1q.SAP) in the sera of 38 patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) and 20 healthy control subjects using an enzyme-linked immunoassay. We also compared complex levels in HD patients with and without symptoms of HD-as...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hasegawa M,Kawashima S,Shikano M,Kojima K,Yanai T,Hassegawa H,Tomita M,Murakami K,Kawamura N,Katsumata H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets with hypercalciuria (HHRH) is a new autosomal form of hypophosphatemic rickets, recently described. This disease is characterized, and differs from other forms of hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets and/or osteomalacia by increased serum levels of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, hypercalci...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tieder M,Arie R,Bab I,Maor J,Liberman UA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent experience of six large trials of antihypertensive therapy has not clearly demonstrated any beneficial effect on the prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD). The data from the HDFP study have been analyzed by three cholesterol strata at baseline. The higher the baseline cholesterol levels, the greater th...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Schneider KA,Heyden S,Ford C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-anti-DNA cold precipitable complexes (CPC) isolated from 21 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus were tested for their ability to stimulate polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) chemotaxis and to activate complement in vitro. The complexes activated complement in 20 out of 21 cases and stimulated PMN chemotaxis ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Losito A,Cecchini C,Pittavini L,Zampi I

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated hindquarters of bilaterally nephrectomized and sham-operated rats were perfused in the presence and absence of 14C-labelled serine, respectively. After a perfusion period of 30 min 14C-serine was 4,074 +/- 270 dpm/ml in the perfusion medium of sham-operated animals and decreased to 2,800 +/- 190 dpm/ml in the...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Djovkar A,Hörl WH,Heidland A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of uremia upon the hepatic clearance rate of prednisone was studied in isolated perfused livers of normal and uremic female rats. The perfusion rate was kept at a constant flow rate of 25 ml/min. In order to induce uremia, one group of rats was 5/6 nephrectomized 3 weeks prior to the perfusions. The concent...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Egfjord W,Langhoff E,Daugaard H,Olgaard K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00