Perspectives on blockade of TGFbeta overexpression.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peritoneal sclerosis, characterized by collagen accumulation, is a serious complication in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) therapy. Heat shock protein 47 (HSP47) is a collagen-specific molecular chaperon and is closely associated with collagen synthesis. METHODS:We determined the expression...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Shioshita K,Miyazaki M,Ozono Y,Abe K,Taura K,Harada T,Koji T,Taguchi T,Kohno S

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal anemia is an important determinant for left ventricular hypertrophy in dialysis patients and an independent prognosis parameter for the cardiovascular survival in dialysis patients. In addition, an autonomic dysfunction is associated with the uremic state and influences the cardiovascular risk in patie...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Frank H,Heusser K,Höffken B,Huber P,Schmieder RE,Schobel HP

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal failure and toxic acute tubular necrosis (ATN) may be seen following exposure to a variety of therapeutic agents. Zoledronate (Zometa) is a new, highly potent bisphosphonate used in the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy. We report the first clinical-pathologic study of nephrotoxicity associated ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Markowitz GS,Fine PL,Stack JI,Kunis CL,Radhakrishnan J,Palecki W,Park J,Nasr SH,Hoh S,Siegel DS,D'Agati VD

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular distribution of carbonic anhydrase was studied in nine human donor kidneys by the histochemical method of Hansson and by an immunofluorescence technique using antisera specific against the cytoplasmic isoenzymes HCA B and HCA C. Only HCA C was found in the renal tubules. Convoluted proximal tubules s...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lönnerholm G,Wistrand PJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that ultrasonography can detect hyperechogenic crystal deposits in the kidney medulla of patients with gout. In this cross-sectional study we investigated the frequency and clinical correlates of hyperechogenic kidney medulla in 502 consecutive primary consultants for gout (ACR/EULAR criteria)...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Bardin T,Nguyen QD,Tran KM,Le NH,Do MD,Richette P,Letavernier E,Correas JM,Resche-Rigon M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes are small membrane vesicles that are secreted from a variety of cell types into various body fluids including the blood and urine. These vesicles are thought to play a role in cell-cell interactions. CD24 is a small but extensively glycosylated protein linked to the cell surface by means of a glycosyl-phospha...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Keller S,Rupp C,Stoeck A,Runz S,Fogel M,Lugert S,Hager HD,Abdel-Bakky MS,Gutwein P,Altevogt P

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary collapsing glomerulopathy recurs postransplant, raising the possibility of circulating factors implicated in the pathogenesis of the disease. METHODS:To determine the presence of circulating factors in collapsing glomerulopathy patients, we tested serum from those patients in an in vivo assay. Eleve...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Avila-Casado Mdel C,Perez-Torres I,Auron A,Soto V,Fortoul TI,Herrera-Acosta J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among the members of the small leucine-rich proteoglycan family, decorin, biglycan, and fibromodulin have been proposed to be potent modulators of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) activity, thereby playing an important role in the pathogenesis of fibrotic kidney diseases. Furthermore, decorin expre...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Schaefer L,Gröne HJ,Raslik I,Robenek H,Ugorcakova J,Budny S,Schaefer RM,Kresse H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In early clinical testing, acute addition of alanyl-glutamine (AlaGln) to glucose-based peritoneal dialysis (PD) fluids restored peritoneal cellular stress responses and leukocyte function. This study was designed to test the effect of extended treatment with AlaGln-supplemented PD fluid on biomarkers of peritoneal he...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Vychytil A,Herzog R,Probst P,Ribitsch W,Lhotta K,Machold-Fabrizii V,Wiesholzer M,Kaufmann M,Salmhofer H,Windpessl M,Rosenkranz AR,Oberbauer R,König F,Kratochwill K,Aufricht C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia-reperfusion injury is an important cause of graft failure. Because carnitine regulates substrate flux and energy balance across membranes which may be deranged in ischemia we determined whether its use was effective in preventing kidney injury in an allogeneic transplant model. Brown Norway rats received a Le...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Azzollini N,Cugini D,Cassis P,Pezzotta A,Gagliardini E,Abbate M,Arduini A,Peschechera A,Remuzzi G,Noris M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α mediates the profibrotic effects of angiotensin II, we treated cultured renal medullary interstitial cells with angiotensin II and found that it increased HIF-1α levels. This was accompanied by a significant upregulation of collagen I/III, the tissue inhibitor of me...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Wang Z,Tang L,Zhu Q,Yi F,Zhang F,Li PL,Li N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for estimating glomerular volume were compared in Zenker-fixed, paraffin-embedded biopsies from 10 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and 6 normal kidney donors. Two methods of measurement of individual glomerular volumes were used: the Cavalieri method (considered the "gold standard") and the m...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lane PH,Steffes MW,Mauer SM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thick ascending limb of Henle's loop ( TAL ) develops a specific and consistent structural lesion during perfusion of the isolated rat kidney that progresses from mitochondrial swelling at 15 min to complete cellular disruption at 90 min. Because it seemed possible that damage localized to this metabolically activ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Brezis M,Rosen S,Silva P,Epstein FH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ravulizumab is a long-acting C5 inhibitor engineered from eculizumab with increased elimination half-life, allowing an extended dosing interval from two to eight weeks. Here we evaluate the efficacy and safety of ravulizumab in adults with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome presenting with thrombotic microangiopathy. ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Rondeau E,Scully M,Ariceta G,Barbour T,Cataland S,Heyne N,Miyakawa Y,Ortiz S,Swenson E,Vallee M,Yoon SS,Kavanagh D,Haller H,311 Study Group.

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances have led to a greater appreciation of how mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to diverse acute and chronic pathologies. Indeed, mitochondria have received increasing attention as a therapeutic target in a variety of diseases because they serve as key regulatory hubs uniquely situated at crossroads be...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Galvan DL,Green NH,Danesh FR

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study by Rieg et al. is the first to examine potassium handling in BK(-/-) mice, thereby addressing many unanswered questions regarding the separate roles of BK and ROMK channels in renal potassium secretion. This Commentary is an interpretation and opinion of their results, by two researchers who have been studyi...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sansom SC,Welling PA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the effects of the bisphosphonate pamidronate on bone histomorphometry, structure and strength in male rats with uninephrectomy or with chronic renal disease induced by 5/6 nephrectomy. In rats with chronic renal disease the plasma urea, phosphate and parathyroid hormone levels were significantly increase...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Jokihaara J,Pörsti IH,Kööbi P,Jolma PM,Mustonen JT,Saha HH,Sievänen H,Kannus P,Iwaniec UT,Turner RT,Järvinen TL

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Familial nephrotic syndrome (NS) has both autosomal dominant and recessive forms of inheritance. Recent studies in families with an autosomal dominant form of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) have been at odds concerning linkage to chromosome 19q13 (Mathis et al, Kidney Int 53:282-286, 1998; Winn et...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Vats A,Nayak A,Ellis D,Randhawa PS,Finegold DN,Levinson KL,Ferrell RE

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is suggested that either arginine or its metabolites, nitric oxide and polyamines play a role in the renal hemodynamic alterations observed in the early stages of diabetes. Yet, the regulation of arginine transport in diabetic kidneys has never been studied. METHODS:Arginine uptake was determined in glom...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Schwartz IF,Iaina A,Benedict Y,Wollman Y,Chernichovski T,Brasowski E,Misonzhnik F,Ben-Dor A,Blum M,Levo Y,Schwartz D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypercalcemia of malignancy is mediated by complex and heterogeneous mechanisms. Once thought of as a simple paraneoplastic syndrome mediated by the effects of tumor production of PTH, it is now clear that multiple mechanisms are involved and that these mechanisms involve abnormalities in calcium transport in bone...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Mundy GR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil (PMN) recruitment into the peritoneum during acute bacterial peritonitis is an important part of the host defense barrier in CAPD patients. However, the subsequent phagocytosis of bacteria may also lead to PMN degranulation and the release of lysosomal enzymes. We determined the concentration of neutrophil ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Donovan KL,Pacholok S,Humes JL,Coles GA,Williams JD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class II gene products of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are not expressed usually in abundance on normal epithelium. The cell surface visibility of such proteins for the immune system is thought to be limited protectively in order to minimize inflammation consequent to the recognition of self-antigens in ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Albert SE,Shelton K,Sun MJ,Neilson EG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute urinary obstruction causes interstitial inflammation with leukocyte accumulation and the secretion of soluble mediators. Here we show that unilateral ureteral ligation caused a progressive increase in renal F4/80(+) and F4/80(-) dendritic cells, monocytes, neutrophils and T-cells 24-72 h following obstruction. D...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Dong X,Bachman LA,Miller MN,Nath KA,Griffin MD

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertriglyceridemia in nephrotic (NS) and Nagase analbuminemic rats (Analb) results from reduced triglyceride clearance. NS and Analb have reduced or absent albumin, reduced plasma oncotic pressure (pi), but Analb lack proteinuria. The heparin releasable lipoprotein lipase (LpL) pool in both models is greatly reduced...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Shearer GC,Kaysen GA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic renal failure frequently have hypogonadism. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms involved, we tested the ability of serum from these patients to inhibit recombinant human luteinizing hormone receptors. Using a cell line expressing functional human luteinizing hormone receptors, we found that ade...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Dunkel L,Raivio T,Laine J,Holmberg C

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression profile is a list based on a large scale sequencing of 1000 cDNA clones, showing the expressed genes and the abundance of their transcripts in a given cell or tissue (Okubo K et al: Nature Genet 2:173, 1992). We constructed an expression profile of mouse renal proximal tubules (PT) carefully isolated by ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Takenaka M,Imai E,Kaneko T,Ito T,Moriyama T,Yamauchi A,Hori M,Kawamoto S,Okubo K

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome-wide association scan of the Genetics of Kidneys in Diabetes (GoKinD) collections identified four novel susceptibility loci, located on chromosomes 7p14.3, 9q21.32, 11p15.4, and 13q33.3 associated with type 1 diabetic nephropathy. A recent evaluation of these loci in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes sup...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Pezzolesi MG,Poznik GD,Skupien J,Smiles AM,Mychaleckyj JC,Rich SS,Warram JH,Krolewski AS

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmin protease system may have a role in maintaining the patency of renal tubules and in regulating matrix degradation within the glomerulus. Urokinase-plasminogen activator (u-PA) is a serine protease which plays an important part in the regulation of plasmin production from plasminogen. The synthesis of u-PA b...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Brown PA,Wilson HM,Reid FJ,Booth NA,Simpson JG,Morrison L,Power DA,Haites NE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the goal glomerular filtration rate (GFR) for chronic dialysis initiation is currently above 5 ml/min per 1.73 m(2), there is no convincing evidence that patients will benefit from this approach. With close follow-up of advanced chronic kidney disease patients, aiming to start dialysis at an estimated GFR (eG...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Rosansky SJ,Durkin MW

更新日期：2014-10-01 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