Emerging role for fetuin-A as contributor to morbidity and mortality in chronic kidney disease.

abstract：:To investigate the direct toxicity of human Bence Jones protein (BJP), individual nephrons of male Sprague-Dawley rats were perfused in vivo at 20 nl/min with an artificial tubule fluid (ATF) that contained no protein, a human kappa BJP (5 g/dl), or bovine serum albumin (5 g/dl), and proximal convoluted tubule functio...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sanders PW,Herrera GA,Galla JH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylin (islet amyloid peptide) plays a critical role in islet amyloidosis and in the development of beta-cell dysfunction in patients with diabetes; however, the involvement of amylin in renal amyloidosis has not been studied. For this reason, we surveyed 149 patients with biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy (DN). The ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gong W,Liu ZH,Zeng CH,Peng A,Chen HP,Zhou H,Li LS

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Erythropoiesis stimulating agent (ESA) treatment has been a major advance in the care of patients with kidney disease, resulting in reduced symptoms and blood transfusions, and improved quality of life. Recent studies, however, have indicated that attempts to treat to near normal Hgb targets may result in increased ri...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Fishbane S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine double minute (MDM)-2, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, promotes cancer cell survival and growth, by degrading the cell cycle regulator p53. Antagonism of MDM2 by the small-molecule cis-imidazoline nutlin analogs is under current study for cancer therapy. To test whether MDM2 also promotes regenerative cell growth, we d...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Mulay SR,Thomasova D,Ryu M,Anders HJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report of the NIH-supported National Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) Registry summarizes data on 7,404 patients treated with CAPD during the three-year period 1981 through 1983, or nearly one-half of patients treated in the USA who were treated with CAPD during this time. While age and diabetes m...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Nolph KD,Cutler SJ,Steinberg SM,Novak JW

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to normal tissue, hyperplastic parathyroid glands of patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis express lower levels of FGFR1 and Klotho proteins. Similar findings are reported in uremic rats with advanced chronic kidney disease. Moreover, in these animals, FGF23 administration fails to reduce PTH serum...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lafage-Proust MH

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:We studied the glomerular architecture in renal biopsies of 95 patients undergoing bariatric surgery for extreme obesity but whose renal function was normal. The comparison group was 40 control patients having protocol biopsies. These latter patients had normal weight and renal function, were non-diabetic, non-hyperte...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Serra A,Romero R,Lopez D,Navarro M,Esteve A,Perez N,Alastrue A,Ariza A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While hemodialysis therapy in its present form is capable of sustaining life, dialysis patients are not metabolically normal and we are unable to say what technical factors contribute adequate therapy. Recent efforts to resolve these problems have led to the assumption that substances in the molecular weight range of ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lowrie EG,Steinberg SM,Galen MA,Gagneux SA,Lazarus JM,Gottlieb MN,Merrill JP

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing proteinuria in kidney disease is associated with an increased risk of renal failure. Urinary proteins such as albumin induce inflammatory signaling and gene expression in tubular epithelial cells (TECs). Fibronectin is an extracellular matrix protein that can exist in soluble form and is excreted ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ren L,Blanchette JB,White LR,Clark SA,Heffner DJ,Tibbles LA,Muruve DA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mesangial immunoglobulin A (IgA) deposition is incidentally encountered in asymptomatic individuals, but its precise frequency and significance had not been clarified. The background of the latent IgA deposition is related to the epidemiology and pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy. METHODS:Zero-hour allograft ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Suzuki K,Honda K,Tanabe K,Toma H,Nihei H,Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intradialytic hypotension is a most frequent complication of hemodialysis and may contribute to cardiovascular events and high mortality. There is a hypothesis that an increase in adenosine generation during hemodialysis may cause vasodilation and a decrease in cardiac output, which results in systemic hypotension. We...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Imai E,Fujii M,Kohno Y,Kageyama H,Nakahara K,Hori M,Tsubakihara Y

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During online hemodiafiltration, patients are directly infused with sterile substitution solutions to maintain fluid balance. Adequate water treatment and a well-organized quality control process are essential to provide non-pyrogenic fluids with consistent optimal quality. We sought to assess water quality, the water...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Penne EL,Visser L,van den Dorpel MA,van der Weerd NC,Mazairac AH,van Jaarsveld BC,Koopman MG,Vos P,Feith GW,Kremer Hovinga TK,van Hamersvelt HW,Wauters IM,Bots ML,Nubé MJ,Ter Wee PM,Blankestijn PJ,Grooteman MP

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by progressive enlargement of kidney cysts leading to chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Identification of an early biomarker that can predict progression of CKD is urgently needed. In an earlier Consortium for Radiolog...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Yu ASL,Shen C,Landsittel DP,Harris PC,Torres VE,Mrug M,Bae KT,Grantham JJ,Rahbari-Oskoui FF,Flessner MF,Bennett WM,Chapman AB,Consortium for Radiologic Imaging Studies of Polycystic Kidney Disease (CRISP).

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On a typical Western diet, the body is faced with the generation of a metabolically derived acid load that must be excreted to maintain systemic acid-base balance. The kidney is responsible for this task and matches daily acid excretion with daily acid production. Multiple nephron segments are involved in the process,...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Preisig PA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transplantation is the optimal therapy for pediatric end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, but in a subset of patients with peritoneal membrane failure, failed transplants or poor social situations, chronic hemodialysis (HD) remains the only option. Long-term survival of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) and ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sheth RD,Brandt ML,Brewer ED,Nuchtern JG,Kale AS,Goldstein SL

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bikunin is a chondroitin-sulphate containing serum protein with a Stokes-Einstein radius and a negative net charge close to those of serum albumin. The plasma half life of bikunin is about 10 minutes, and approximately half of its clearance occurs in the kidneys. The quantitative role of glomerular filtration in the r...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lindström KE,Blom A,Johnsson E,Haraldsson B,Fries E

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the prognosis and risk factors for ischemic heart disease in chronic uremia, a cohort of 432 dialysis patients were followed prospectively from start of dialysis therapy until death or renal transplantation. Baseline demographic, clinical and echocardiographic data were obtained. After the initiation of d...

journal_title：Kidney international

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

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine is known to decrease renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate. We have tested the hypothesis that adenosine exerts contractile effects on mesangial cells. Furthermore, we have studied, using selective agonists and antagonists for adenosine, which kind of adenosine receptor, A1 or A2, is mainly implica...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Olivera A,Lamas S,Rodriguez-Puyol D,López-Novoa JM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion of calcium oxalate (CaOx) crystals to kidney cells may be a key event in the pathogenesis of kidney stones associated with marked hyperoxaluria. Previously, we found that 1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-galloyl-β-D-glucose (PGG), isolated from a traditional medicinal herb, reduced CaOx crystal adhesion to renal epithelial ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lee HJ,Jeong SJ,Lee HJ,Lee EO,Bae H,Lieske JC,Kim SH

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic kidney disease progresses more rapidly in men than in women. To investigate the basis for this sexual dimorphism, we exposed Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells grown on collagen-coated cell culture inserts to control media, or to estradiol or testosterone (1 nM-1 microM). Compared to control and estradi...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sandhu S,Silbiger SR,Lei J,Neugarten J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both single-frequency bioimpedance and multiple-frequency spectroscopy are equally accurate in measuring total-body water and intracellular fluid. Estimates are consistent at a population level but not at the individual level, because of wide limits of agreement. There is no real 'gold standard' method providing estim...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Piccoli A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One reason for the inadequacy of current renoprotective therapy and the persistent poor renal prognosis in diabetic nephropathy is the large interindividual variation in response to treatment. Genetic as well as non-genetic factors are known to influence treatment efficacy. This Commentary summarizes the impact of the...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Jacobsen PK,Tarnow L,Parving HH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In addition to nitric oxide (NO) and prostacyclin (PGI2), the vascular endothelium can influence local vascular tone by a mechanism involving the hyperpolarization of vascular smooth muscle cells. This response is attributed to the release of an endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF). The present ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Büssemaker E,Popp R,Binder J,Busse R,Fleming I

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residual renal function is a major survival determinant for peritoneal dialysis patients. Hypovolemia can cause acute kidney injury and loss of residual renal function, and it has been suggested that patients receiving peritoneal dialysis should preferably be maintained hypervolemic to preserve residual renal function...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： McCafferty K,Fan S,Davenport A

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Simple life-table analyses have not identified the reasons for the steady improvement over the years in graft survival. The use of more sophisticated multifactorial statistical techniques is indicated to identify prognostic factors and to explore the "center effect" on graft survival. An agenda for retrospective analy...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gore SM

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Correlation of histology to rejection reversal: A Thymoglobulin Multicenter Trial report BACKGROUND:Histology may provide a link between clinical response to antirejection therapy and graft function. In a subset of centers, renal biopsy was a secondary end point for the Thymoglobulin Multicenter Trial. MET...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gaber LW,Moore LW,Gaber AO,Tesi RJ,Meyer J,Schroeder TJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00