Low exposure to melamine increases the risk of urolithiasis in adults.

abstract：:Long-term complications of continuous immunosuppression still remain a serious threat and are currently drawing the attention of transplant physicians. Wimmer et al. show that malignancy occurs approximately fourfold more frequently in renal-transplant recipients than in a normal control population. Besides immunosupp...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Bosmans JL,Verpooten GA

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Aminopeptidase A is one of the most potent enzymes within the renin-angiotensin system in terms of angiotensin II degradation. Here, we examined whether there is a kidney phenotype and any compensatory changes in other renin angiotensin system enzymes involved in the metabolism of angiotensin II associated with aminop...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Marahrens B,Schulze A,Wysocki J,Lin MH,Ye M,Kanwar YS,Bader M,Velez JCQ,Miner JH,Batlle D

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular enlargement is very common at the inception of dialysis therapy, and highly predictive of future cardiac morbidity and mortality. It is not known whether cardiac size increases further while on dialysis therapy and whether potentially reversible risk factors for later progression can be iden...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Foley RN,Parfrey PS,Kent GM,Harnett JD,Murray DC,Barre PE

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:In April 2006, Japan's health insurance system instituted a bundling policy that included recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) in outpatient hemodialysis therapy. To evaluate outcomes of this, we analyzed a prospective cohort of hemodialysis patients in the Japan Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study, in ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Hasegawa T,Bragg-Gresham JL,Pisoni RL,Robinson BM,Fukuhara S,Akiba T,Saito A,Kurokawa K,Akizawa T

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our preliminary studies indicate that chronic caffeine consumption has adverse renal effects in nephropathy associated with high blood pressure and insulin resistance. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of early (beginning at 8 weeks of age) and long-term (30 weeks) caffeine treatment (...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tofovic SP,Kost CK Jr,Jackson EK,Bastacky SI

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bicarbonate reabsorption in the kidney proximal tubule is predominantly mediated via the apical Na+/H+ exchanger (NHE-3) and basolateral Na+: HCO(-3) cotransporter (NBC-1). The purpose of these studies was to examine the effects of Na+ load and altered acid-base status on the expression of NHE-3 and NBC-1 in...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Amlal H,Chen Q,Greeley T,Pavelic L,Soleimani M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (EPO) therapy in hemodialysis patients may be associated with an enhanced risk of vascular access and extracorporeal thrombosis. Assessment of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis was performed monthly on a group of 21 hemodialysis patients treated with EPO, and on four iron-deficient hemodialysis patient...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Taylor JE,Belch JJ,McLaren M,Henderson IS,Stewart WK

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive kidney fibrosis precedes end-stage renal failure in up to a third of patients with diabetes mellitus. Elevated intra-renal transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is thought to underlie disease progression by promoting deposition of extracellular matrix and epithelial-mesenchymal transition. GW788388 is...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Petersen M,Thorikay M,Deckers M,van Dinther M,Grygielko ET,Gellibert F,de Gouville AC,Huet S,ten Dijke P,Laping NJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of an acute load of potassium on potassium reabsorption by the loop of Henle in chronic renal failure, the right kidney was removed and branches of the left renal artery were ligated in 17 rats. One week later and after 2 days of a potassium-free diet, rats were studied before (period 1) and af...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Milanes CL,Jamison RL

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regular access monitoring is recommended to detect and treat access stenosis in order to prevent access thrombosis and failure. METHODS:In 1999, we instituted monthly access blood flow monitoring using the ultrasound dilution technique (UDT). In a sequential observational trial, 222 patients were studied fo...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Shahin H,Reddy G,Sharafuddin M,Katz D,Franzwa BS,Dixon BS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated glucose levels and glomerular hypertension (Pgc) are considered to contribute to the elaboration of matrix protein by mesangial cells (MCs) in diabetic glomeruli. MCs grown in 30 mM of glucose produce excessive matrix protein, as do MCs exposed to cyclic strain, and the combination of the two exacer...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ingram AJ,Ly H,Thai K,Kang MJ,Scholey JW

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteomic techniques have recently become available for large-scale protein analysis. The utility of these techniques in identification of urinary proteins is poorly defined. We constructed a proteome map of normal human urine as a reference protein database by using two differential fractionated techniques ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Thongboonkerd V,McLeish KR,Arthur JM,Klein JB

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF alpha) production was studied during in vitro hemodialysis (HD) of whole blood using cuprammonium (Cup) or polysulfone (PS) dialyzers. In the absence of LPS, circulation of whole blood for two hours through Cup or PS dialyzers was not suffici...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Schindler R,Lonnemann G,Shaldon S,Koch KM,Dinarello CA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal urine contains thousands of proteins, largely due to the presence of 'exosomes,' tiny vesicles secreted into the urine by renal epithelial cells. These exosomes, demonstrated by Keller and colleagues to be also retrievable from amniotic fluid, offer great promise for future disease biomarker discovery studies. ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Knepper MA,Pisitkun T

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observational studies are valuable and provocative. We are learning about how we practice peritoneal dialysis (PD) and how we might improve on that practice. For example, outcomes of PD therapy are not worse in large patients. Perhaps this will encourage physicians and patients to utilize PD in large patients. In addi...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Golper TA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensinase A (aminopeptidase A; ATA) is an angiotensin II splitting exopeptidase, which is localized in endothelial and epithelial cells of the glomerular tuft. In order to investigate the influence of a reduction in renal mass on enzyme activity, ATA activity was measured in isolated rat glomeruli five and 14 wee...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Wolf G,Thaiss F,Scherberich JE,Schoeppe W,Stahl RA

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to explore risk factors affecting the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in general population. We conducted a 10-year follow-up study with 123 764 (male: 41 012, female: 82 752) adults aged 40 years and over who received community-based annual examinations. The primary outcome for...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Yamagata K,Ishida K,Sairenchi T,Takahashi H,Ohba S,Shiigai T,Narita M,Koyama A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) binding studies and the effects of DHT on the expression of beta-glucuronidase (Gus) and kidney androgen-regulated protein (KAP) genes and cell growth were investigated in immortalized early PKSV-PCT and late PKSV-PR proximal tubule cells, derived from transgenic mice carrying the L-pyruvate ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ouar Z,Solé E,Bens M,Rafestin-Oblin ME,Meseguer A,Vandewalle A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lanthanum carbonate has been shown to be a safe, effective phosphate-binding agent. We have shown that an impaired mineralization in chronic renal failure rats treated with high doses of lanthanum carbonate develops secondary to phosphate depletion and is therefore pharmacologically mediated rather than a di...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Behets GJ,Verberckmoes SC,Oste L,Bervoets AR,Salomé M,Cox AG,Denton J,De Broe ME,D'Haese PC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted to investigate the impact of nitric oxide synthesis inhibition on blood pressure and glomerular hemodynamic adaptations to pregnancy in the rat. In normal pregnancy, urinary excretion of NO2 + NO3 (NOx), reflecting increased nitric oxide (NO) production, progressively increased. Blockade of NO p...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Deng A,Engels K,Baylis C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nephrotoxic glomerulonephritis is induced by the administration of antibody against the glomerular basement membrane (GBM). We demonstrated previously that Fc receptors for immunoglobulin G (IgG) (FcgammaR) play crucial roles in the induction of accelerated nephrotoxic glomerulonephritis by using FcRgamma-de...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Fujii T,Hamano Y,Ueda S,Akikusa B,Yamasaki S,Ogawa M,Saisho H,Verbeek JS,Taki S,Saito T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperinsulinemia can contribute to hypertension through effects on sodium transport. To test whether the stimulatory effect of insulin on renal proximal tubule sodium transport is preserved in insulin resistance, we compared the effects of insulin on abdominal adipocytes and proximal tubules in rats and humans. Insuli...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Nakamura M,Yamazaki O,Shirai A,Horita S,Satoh N,Suzuki M,Hamasaki Y,Noiri E,Kume H,Enomoto Y,Homma Y,Seki G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) is widely used to study renal fibrosis; however, renal injury can only be scored semiobjectively by histology. We sought to improve the UUO model by reimplanting the obstructed ureter followed by removal of the contralateral kidney, thus allowing longitudinal measurem...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tapmeier TT,Brown KL,Tang Z,Sacks SH,Sheerin NS,Wong W

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:We designed a study to provide reversibility and comparative injury data for several candidate urinary biomarkers of kidney injury in the United States Food and Drug Administration biomarker qualification process. The nephrotoxin gentamicin was given to rats once on each of three days and the animals were killed durin...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Rouse RL,Zhang J,Stewart SR,Rosenzweig BA,Espandiari P,Sadrieh NK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide is synthesized in experimental immune complex glomerulonephritis due to local induction of type 2 nitric oxide synthase (NOS2). To determine the role of NOS2, the course of accelerated anti-glomerular basement membrane glomerulonephritis (anti-GBM) was examined in mice homozygous for disruption of the NOS...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Cattell V,Cook HT,Ebrahim H,Waddington SN,Wei XQ,Assmann KJ,Liew FY

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is associated with a urine-concentrating defect attributed to renal cystic changes. As PKD genes are expressed in the brain, altered central release of arginine vasopressin could also play a role. In order to help determine this we measured central and nephrogenic c...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ho TA,Godefroid N,Gruzon D,Haymann JP,Maréchal C,Wang X,Serra A,Pirson Y,Devuyst O

更新日期：2012-11-01 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