Remodeling of renal interstitial and tubular lesions in pancreas transplant recipients.

abstract：:Our previous in vivo study demonstrated that methylprednisolone (MP) activates glomerular antioxidant enzymes and attenuates glomerular oxidant injuries, including those in experimental nephrosis. The present study investigates the cellular mechanism of the MP-induced activation of antioxidant enzymes and their contri...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Yoshioka T,Kawamura T,Meyrick BO,Beckman JK,Hoover RL,Yoshida H,Ichikawa I

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this retrospective study, we analyzed clinical laboratory, and pathologic variables to determine their value in predicting survival and survival free of renal failure for 170 consecutive patients with idiopathic renal vasculitis and glomerulonephritis evaluated during a 15 year period. Of the 170 patients, 108 had ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Wilkowski MJ,Velosa JA,Holley KE,Offord KP,Chu CP,Torres VE,McCarthy JT,Donadio JV Jr,Wagoner RD

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of albumin to the glomerular capillary wall was studied using albumin-gold in perfused kidneys, the interaction of [3H]albumin with isolated glomeruli at 37 degrees C and 4 degrees C and the interaction at [3H]albumin with purified basement membrane. The albumin-gold was found to bind predominantly to the ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Adal Y,Smit MF,Osicka TM,Comper WD

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissandié and colleagues report in this issue on their studies of IgA1 glycosylation and biological activities of IgA1-containing circulating immune complexes in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis who developed secondary renal disease with IgA deposits, secondary IgA nephropathy. Their seminal findings demonstrate abno...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Novak J,Julian BA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is the immune system's response to infectious or noninfectious sources of danger. Danger recognition is facilitated by various innate immune receptor families including the Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which detect danger signals in extracellular and intracellular compartments. It is an evolving concept th...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Anders HJ,Schlondorff DO

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloproliferative neoplasms are clonal hematopoietic stem cell disorders that can produce an undefined glomerulopathy. To better characterize the glomerular disease associated with myeloproliferative neoplasms, we evaluated features of 11 patients with myeloproliferative neoplasm-related glomerulopathy that included ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Said SM,Leung N,Sethi S,Cornell LD,Fidler ME,Grande JP,Herrmann S,Tefferi A,D'Agati VD,Nasr SH

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that hypercalciuria could cause calcium stone formation through a mechanism other than by increasing urinary saturation of stone-forming calcium salts was explored. The effect of increasing calcium concentration on the inhibitor activity against the spontaneous precipitation of calcium oxalate was exam...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Zerwekh JE,Hwang TI,Poindexter J,Hill K,Wendell G,Pak CY

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously termed acute renal failure, is associated with increased mortality, prolonged hospital stay, and accelerated chronic kidney disease (CKD). Over the past 2 decades, dramatic rises in the incidences of AKI have been reported, particularly within the United States. The question arise...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Siew ED,Davenport A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in tissue oxygen levels trigger molecular signaling pathways that regulate cellular proliferation and differentiation in multiple cell types. The functional role of oxygen signaling in the immune system is not well understood. Rama and colleagues demonstrate that hypoxia induces dendritic-cell maturation; thus...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Maltzman JS,Haase VH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety of dietary protein and phosphorous restriction was evaluated in the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study. In Study A, 585 patients with a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 25 to 55 ml/min/1.73 m2 were randomly assigned to a usual-protein diet (1.3 g/kg/day) or a low-protein diet (0.58 g/kg/d...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kopple JD,Levey AS,Greene T,Chumlea WC,Gassman JJ,Hollinger DL,Maroni BJ,Merrill D,Scherch LK,Schulman G,Wang SR,Zimmer GS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gain-of-function variants in CFB encoding factor B (FB), a component of the alternative pathway C3 convertase, have been reported in a minority of patients with aHUS and result in massive C3 activation. Zhang et al. describe the functional characterization of a novel FB variant (p.Ser367Arg) that they identified in 2 ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Noris M,Remuzzi G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cisplatin (CP) induced polyuria in rats is associated with a reduction in medullary hypertonicity, normally generated by the thick ascending limb (TAL) salt transporters, and the collecting duct urea transporters (UT). To investigate the molecular basis of this abnormality, we determined the protein abundanc...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ecelbarger CA,Sands JM,Doran JJ,Cacini W,Kishore BK

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Although the pathogenesis of steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS) remains elusive, multiple epidemiologic, clinical, and experimental studies converge on the common theme of immune dysregulation. Initially, T-cell adaptive immunity was solely emphasized; however, the role of humoral immunity in nephrotic syndro...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Chambers ET,Gbadegesin RA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in myocardial wall texture stand out among ADPKD cardiovascular manifestations in hypertensive and normotensive patients. To elucidate their pathogenesis, we analyzed the cardiac phenotype in Pkd1(cond/cond)Nestin(cre) (CYG+) cystic mice exposed to increased blood pressure, at 5 to 6 and 20 to 24 weeks of ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Balbo BE,Amaral AG,Fonseca JM,de Castro I,Salemi VM,Souza LE,Dos Santos F,Irigoyen MC,Qian F,Chammas R,Onuchic LF

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong influence of urinary kallikrein excretion on the salt sensitivity of blood pressure has been recently suggested in normotensive patients. To evaluate the relationship between kallikrein and salt sensitivity in essential hypertension, active kallikrein excretion, plasma renin activity, atrial natriuretic pepti...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ferri C,Bellini C,Carlomagno A,Perrone A,Santucci A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunction and loss of podocytes (glomerular epithelial cells) are the hallmarks of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). In recent years, activation and proliferation of parietal epithelial cells (PECs) have been increasingly appreciated in FSGS. The functional role of PECs in FSGS is still a hotly debated issu...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sweetwyne MT,Susztak K

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While an understanding of the epidemiology and clinical course of HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) is growing, little is known about the risk factors and clinical course of the other renal diseases that may also occur as a complication of HIV infection. This study was undertaken to compare HIVAN to the spe...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Szczech LA,Gupta SK,Habash R,Guasch A,Kalayjian R,Appel R,Fields TA,Svetkey LP,Flanagan KH,Klotman PE,Winston JA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of immunoreactive kallikrein was described in the rat nephron using ultrastructural immunocytochemistry. The renal tissue was fixed with a mixture of buffered picric acid-paraformaldehyde-glutaraldehyde and immunostained with the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method for the electron microscope...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Vío CP,Figueroa CD

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tubulointerstitial fibrosis is a morphologic hallmark of chronic kidney disease and is a key factor in the prediction of progression to end-stage renal failure. Disruption of tubular basement membrane and interstitial extracellular matrix (ECM) via cytokine-induced alterations in matrix metalloproteinases (M...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Nee LE,McMorrow T,Campbell E,Slattery C,Ryan MP

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We developed an electroporation-mediated gene transfer method targeting glomerular mesangial cells. Injecting DNA solution via renal artery followed by electric pulses using tweezers-type electrodes could result in efficient transfection in mesangial cells. Therefore, this gene transfer system opened a feasi...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Isaka Y,Nakamura H,Mizui M,Takabatake Y,Horio M,Kawachi H,Shimizu F,Imai E,Hori M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estradiol suppresses the synthesis of type I collagen by murine mesangial cells. However, neither the alpha 1(I) nor the alpha 2(I) collagen gene contains an estrogen-response element. Because estradiol modulates the transcription of several genes that lack an estrogen-response element but contain a regulato...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Silbiger S,Lei J,Neugarten J

更新日期：1999-04-01 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:In inflammation, urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) and its receptor (uPAR) play an important role in fibrinolysis and in activation and chemotaxis of neutrophils and lymphocytes. Moreover, the uPA/uPAR system is involved in processes that affect turnover of the extracellular matrix (ECM). The aim of this...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Roelofs JJ,Rowshani AT,van den Berg JG,Claessen N,Aten J,ten Berge IJ,Weening JJ,Florquin S

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several examinations have been performed to identify the genes involved in chronic renal failure using 5/6 nephrectomized rats. Recently, many systematic techniques for examining molecular expression have been developed. They might also be effective in elucidating the molecular mechanism of progressive renal...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Horiba N,Masuda S,Takeuchi A,Saito H,Okuda M,Inui K

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin is a platinum-containing antitumor agent whose usefulness is limited by nephrotoxicity. We examined the effects of cisplatin on a representative, transporting epithelium--the frog skin. Cisplatin (10(-3)M) from the mucosal surface increased the active transport of sodium by 35 to 40%, as monitored by short-c...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： van den Berg EK Jr,Brazy PC,Huang AT,Dennis VW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro heparin sensitivity of 18 nephrotic children was compared with that of 10 normal children and 13 children with other renal diseases. The influence of age on the heparin sensitivity of 52 normal subjects (aged 12 to 85 years) was also studied. The heparin sensitivity was calculated from the dose-response c...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Vermylen CG,Levin M,Lanham JG,Hardisty RM,Barratt TM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ischemic acute renal failure (iARF) is associated with increased nitric oxide (NO) production during the reperfusion period, as endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) is maximally activated, and renal tubular inducible NOS (iNOS) is stimulated. Increased NO production leads to augmented tubular injury, pro...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Schwartz IF,Schwartz D,Traskonov M,Chernichovsky T,Wollman Y,Gnessin E,Topilsky I,Levo Y,Iaina A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use might be associated with a lower risk of developing cancer in the general population. Patients on dialysis have increased risk for cancer, but there are no studies to determine the relationship between NSAID use and cancer risk in these p...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ou SM,Chen YT,Chao PW,Lee YJ,Liu CJ,Yeh CM,Chen TJ,Chen TW,Yang WC,Li SY

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that nocturnal hypoxemia in sleep apnea causes an inversion of the circadian arterial pressure rhythm and triggers nocturnal hypertension. Since sleep apnea is very frequent in dialysis patients, we hypothesized that nocturnal hypoxemia may be a factor that contributes to alter the 24-hour arter...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Zoccali C,Benedetto FA,Tripepi G,Cambareri F,Panuccio V,Candela V,Mallamaci F,Enia G,Labate C,Tassone F

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00