Measurement of urinary chemokine and growth factor messenger RNAs: a noninvasive monitoring in lupus nephritis.

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide has recently been found decreased in chronic kidney disease. Here we determined the effect and underlying mechanisms of hydrogen sulfide on a rat model of unilateral ureteral obstruction. Compared with normal rats, obstructive injury decreased the plasma hydrogen sulfide level. Cystathionine-β-synthas...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Song K,Wang F,Li Q,Shi YB,Zheng HF,Peng H,Shen HY,Liu CF,Hu LF

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Podocyte effacement and the reformation of foot processes and slit diaphragms can be induced within minutes experimentally. Therefore, it seems likely that the slit diaphragm proteins underlie orchestrated recycling mechanisms under the control of posttranslational modifiers. One of these modifiers, SUMO (small ubiqui...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tossidou I,Himmelseher E,Teng B,Haller H,Schiffer M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the comparison of survival in patients with renal failure treated by dialysis and transplantation may be biased by pretreatment prognostic differences in the patients who receive these two therapies, we quantified the pretreatment prognosis of all 430 dialysis and transplant patients who began therapy for end-...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Hutchinson TA,Thomas DC,Lemieux JC,Harvey CE

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The beneficial effect of blood transfusions before cadaveric renal transplantation on allograft survival, although previously well documented, has become controversial in light of their adverse effects. Recently, it has been suggested that their clinical benefits are due to HLA-DR sharing between the blood d...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Hiesse C,Busson M,Buisson C,Farahmand H,Bierling P,Benbunan M,Bedrossian J,Aubert P,Glotz D,Loirat C,Rondeau E,Viron B,Bleux H,Lang P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From August 1987 through February 1995 we performed 42 surgical procedures in 29 patients with occluded or stenotic radiocephalic arteriovenous fistulae. Operations were designed to preserve native veins for cannulation (Group I) or to preserve access in the same forearm, bypassing the failed fistula (Group II). For 2...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Oakes DD,Sherck JP,Cobb LF

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:Levels of components of the classical and alternative complement pathways and the activity of the C3 nephritic factor (C3NeF) were measured in serum specimens from patients with type I (subendothelial deposits) and type II (intramembranous dense deposits) membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) and the results...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ooi YM,Vallota EH,West CD

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of patients with diabetes mellitus in the general population has improved in recent years. Here we assessed whether similar trends have occurred in 1688 kidney recipients, including 413 with diabetes prior to transplant between 1996 and 2007. Compared to patients without diabetes, the 5-year mortality was...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Keddis MT,El Ters M,Rodrigo E,Dean P,Wohlfahrtova M,Kudva YC,Lorenz EC,Cosio FG

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high frequency (25%) of anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies is observed in French hemodialyzed patients; this is associated with detectable viremia in 85% and results in chronic hepatitis in more than 90%. We conducted a pilot study to examine the tolerance and efficacy of alpha-2b Interferon therapy upon HCV in...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Pol S,Thiers V,Carnot F,Zins B,Romeo R,Berthelot P,Bréchot C

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Thiazide diuretics have the unique characteristic of increasing renal Na+ excretion, while decreasing Ca2+ excretion. However, the molecular mechanism responsible for this thiazide-induced hypocalciuria remains unclear. The present study investigates the effect of thiazides on the expression of the protein...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Nijenhuis T,Hoenderop JG,Loffing J,van der Kemp AW,van Os CH,Bindels RJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carefully age-matched, purebred male beagle dogs that underwent uninephrectomy one month after they were made diabetic with alloxan were used to establish a model of rapidly developing diabetic nephropathy in a large animal. The diabetic animals, all requiring insulin, were divided into two groups: one group with cont...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Steffes MW,Buchwald H,Wigness BD,Groppoli TJ,Rupp WM,Rohde TD,Blackshear PJ,Mauer SM

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have evaluated 50 children (30 girls and 20 boys; mean age, 10.1 years) with a variety of renal diseases in whom renal biopsy specimens showed crescents in greater than or equal to 50% of glomeruli. Initial clinical features included edema in 61%; hypertension in 51%; gross hematuria in 73%; 3 to 4+ ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors：

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Podocytes are highly differentiated cells that play an important role in maintaining glomerular filtration barrier integrity; a function regulated by small GTPase proteins of the Rho family. To investigate the role of Rho A in podocyte biology, we created transgenic mice expressing doxycycline-inducible constitutively...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Wang L,Ellis MJ,Gomez JA,Eisner W,Fennell W,Howell DN,Ruiz P,Fields TA,Spurney RF

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) following cardiac surgery is closely interrelated with hemodynamic instability and sympathetic activity, and adversely influences prognosis. Here, we investigated in a randomized placebo-controlled trial whether dexmedetomidine, an α2 adrenoreceptor agonist, could prevent AKI after valvular h...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Cho JS,Shim JK,Soh S,Kim MK,Kwak YL

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D receptor activation has been associated with increased serum creatinine and reduced estimated glomerular filtration rates, raising concerns that its use may be detrimental to kidney function. Here we studied the effect of vitamin D receptor activation on serum creatinine, creatinine generation, and its clear...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Agarwal R,Hynson JE,Hecht TJ,Light RP,Sinha AD

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first case of a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletion diagnosed by renal biopsy. An eight-year-old girl with megaloblastic anemia and severe growth retardation developed progressive renal insufficiency accompanied by partial Fanconi syndrome. Histologic examination of the renal biopsy disclosed nonspecific ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Szabolcs MJ,Seigle R,Shanske S,Bonilla E,DiMauro S,D'Agati V

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In chronic serum sickness, glomerular immune complexes form, yet C57BL/6 mice do not develop glomerulonephritis unless complement factor H (CfH) is absent, indicating the relevance of complement regulation. Complement receptor 3 (CD11b) and Fcγ receptors on leukocytes, and CfH on platelets, can bind immune complexes. ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Alexander JJ,Chaves LD,Chang A,Jacob A,Ritchie M,Quigg RJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies showed conflicting results regarding the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels and mineral metabolism in end-stage renal disease. In order to determine whether the bioavailable vitamin D (that fraction not bound to vitamin D-binding protein) associates more strongly with measures of mi...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Bhan I,Powe CE,Berg AH,Ankers E,Wenger JB,Karumanchi SA,Thadhani RI

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth failure is a cardinal feature of chronic renal failure in children. Administration of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) ameliorates this problem but may adversely affect the kidney and hasten the progression to end-stage renal disease. We conducted experiments to examine the impact of rhGH on the severity...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Trachtman H,Futterweit S,Schwob N,Maesaka J,Valderrama E

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the polycystin-1 C-terminal cytoplasmic tail increases Cl(-) channel activity in Xenopus oocytes. Background. Cyst expansion in autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by active Cl(-) secretion in excess of solute reabsorption. However, the connections between elevated epith...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Chernova MN,Vandorpe DH,Clark JS,Alper SL

更新日期：2005-08-01 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:Chronic cyclosporine (CsA) nephrotoxicity is characterized by interstitial fibrosis and afferent arteriolar hyalinosis. L-arginine (L-Arg), the substrate for nitric oxide (NO) synthase and N-nitro-L-arginine-methyl ester (L-NAME), the NO synthase inhibitor, were shown to modulate acute CsA nephrotoxicity. Ho...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Shihab FS,Yi H,Bennett WM,Andoh TF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was done to investigate the mechanisms that underly the changes of renal renin gene expression upon hypoperfusion of one kidney. To this end the left renal arteries of male Sprague-Dawley rats were clipped with 0.2 mm silver clips and renal renin mRNA levels were assayed by RNase protection during the first...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Schricker K,Holmer S,Krämer BK,Riegger G,Kurtz A

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the size of renal cysts in the native kidneys of patients with ADPKD who have been transplanted was found to be reduced when rapamycin was the immunosuppressant, we tested the involvement of the mTOR pathway in cyst enlargement. Here, male pcy mice, with mutation in one of the nephronophthisis genes, were trea...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gattone VH 2nd,Sinders RM,Hornberger TA,Robling AG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intravenous (i.v.) and intracarotid (IC) angiotensin II (AII) infusion on systemic and renal hemodynamics, renal water excretion, and plasma antidiuretic hormone (ADH) levels were examined in six conscious dogs under water loaded and hydropenic conditions. In the first group of seven studies, AII in a m...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Henrich WL,Walker BR,Handelman WA,Erickson AL,Arnold PE,Schrier RW

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome is a proteinuric disease secondary to the release of a nonidentified circulating glomerular permeability factor by T cells. Because specificities of T-cell activation in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome remain unknown, we evaluated transcriptional activation of T cells in nephrotic...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Mansour H,Cheval L,Elalouf JM,Aude JC,Alyanakian MA,Mougenot B,Doucet A,Deschênes G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hypothesis that angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors interfere with the treatment of anemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) remains controversial. To test this hypothesis, a retrospective analysis was conducted in a large group of hemodialysis patients with renal anemia. METHODS...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Hayashi K,Hasegawa K,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bioimpedance, a noninvasive technique to analyze body composition, has attracted interest in determining body hydration in hemodialysis patients. However, the so-called whole-body (wrist-to-ankle) bioimpedance analysis (WBIA) is sensitive to changes in regional fluid distribution and tends to underestimate f...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Zhu F,Schneditz D,Levin NW

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High glucose evokes a variety of signals in mesangial cells that alter cellular functions responsible for the development of diabetic glomerulopathy. The hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) regulates cellular homeostasis under hypoxic conditions, but it also has pleiotropic effects in response to cellular str...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Isoe T,Makino Y,Mizumoto K,Sakagami H,Fujita Y,Honjo J,Takiyama Y,Itoh H,Haneda M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although case reports link proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) use and hypomagnesemia, no large-scale studies have been conducted. Here we examined the serum magnesium concentration and the likelihood of hypomagnesemia (<1.6 mg/dl) with a history of PPI or histamine-2 receptor antagonist used to reduce gastric acid, or use of...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Danziger J,William JH,Scott DJ,Lee J,Lehman LW,Mark RG,Howell MD,Celi LA,Mukamal KJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00