Renin increases mesangial cell transforming growth factor-beta1 and matrix proteins through receptor-mediated, angiotensin II-independent mechanisms.

abstract：:Efficacy and safety of antibiotic 'locks', in prevention of thrombotic and infectious complication-related morbidity and mortality, among diabetics dialyzed through tunneled-cuffed catheters (TCCs) has not been effectively investigated. This trial was designed to investigate the outcome of TCCs (n = 109), inserted amo...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Saxena AK,Panhotra BR,Sundaram DS,Al-Hafiz A,Naguib M,Venkateshappa CK,Abu-Oun BA,Hussain SM,Al-Ghamdi AA

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：: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：:Amyloidosis results from protein misfolding, and ongoing amyloid deposition can ultimately lead to organ failure and death. Historically, this is a group of diseases with limited treatment options and frequently poor prognosis. However, there are now 'targeted' therapeutics emerging in the form of stabilizers of the p...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sayed RH,Hawkins PN,Lachmann HJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is known that chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) patients with gout may have subtle lead poisoning. In addition, gout episodes frequently aggravate progressive renal insufficiency because of the use of nephrotoxic drugs and urate deposition. Our study was arranged to evaluate the causal effect of environme...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lin JL,Yu CC,Lin-Tan DT,Ho HH

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:To determine whether the induction of immune-mediated glomerular injury influences the formation of cyclooxygenase products by glomerular cells, we determined prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and thromboxane B2 (TXB2) (as the stable metabolite of TXA2) formation in isolated glomeruli of rats with passive Heymann nephritis (PHN...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Stahl RA,Adler S,Baker PJ,Chen YP,Pritzl PM,Couser WG

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Absorption of amino acids by the necturus proximal tubules was measured under free-flow conditions The coexistence of proximal tubular amino acid influx was determined by infusing saline into tubular lumens by the stopped-flow microperfusion technique. Under free-flow conditions, fractional absorption of individual am...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Oken DE,Weise M

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel variant of the LLC-PK1 cell line was used to examine directly the mechanism whereby PGF2 alpha and TPA inhibit renal ammoniagenesis. The variant cells, which exhibit a growth pattern and morphology similar to the parent cell line, were isolated by a self selection process utilizing long-term cultures of parent...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sahai A,Fadda GZ,Sandler RS,Tannen RL

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melamine, a widely used chemical found in many products in daily use, became a public health concern due to melamine-associated urinary stone formation in children. In adults, it is still unknown whether low-dose melamine exposure may also cause urolithiasis. To address this question, we studied 211 Taiwanese patients...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Liu CC,Wu CF,Chen BH,Huang SP,Goggins W,Lee HH,Chou YH,Wu WJ,Huang CH,Shiea J,Lee CH,Wu KY,Wu MT

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (Ngal, 24p3, SIP24, lipocalin 2, or siderocalin) was originally purified from neutrophils, but with unknown function. Recently, it was identified that Ngal activates nephron formation in the embryonic kidney, is rapidly and massively induced in renal failure and possesses kid...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Mori K,Nakao K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a rare systemic autoimmune disease characterized by small-vessel vasculitis leading to organ damage and the presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCAs). ANCAs were shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease by increasing adhesion of polymorphonu...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gencik M,Meller S,Borgmann S,Fricke H

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The peritoneum is progressively denuded of its mesothelial cell monolayer in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). These alterations of the mesothelium cause membrane dysfunction and progressive peritoneal fibrosis. Integrins regulate cell motility and play an important role in wound ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tamura M,Osajima A,Nakayamada S,Anai H,Kabashima N,Kanegae K,Ota T,Tanaka Y,Nakashima Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha rapidly primes neutrophils (PMN) for an anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-induced respiratory burst and is thus proinflammatory. TNF-alpha also progressively accelerates apoptosis. We investigated the effect of TNF-alpha-mediated apoptosis on ANCA antigen expressio...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kettritz R,Scheumann J,Xu Y,Luft FC,Haller H

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pneumonia emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Unfortunately, there is a lack of evidence about the optimal management of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and even less is available in patients on maintenance hemodialysis therapy than in the g...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Goicoechea M,Sánchez Cámara LA,Macías N,Muñoz de Morales A,Rojas ÁG,Bascuñana A,Arroyo D,Vega A,Abad S,Verde E,García Prieto AM,Verdalles Ú,Barbieri D,Delgado AF,Carbayo J,Mijaylova A,Acosta A,Melero R,Tejedor A,Ben

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic polymorphisms of the angiotensinogen (AGT) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) genes are associated with increased risk of hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in hypertensive subjects. However, the extent to which these polymorphisms are related to LVH and remodeling in dialysis p...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Wang AY,Chan JC,Wang M,Poon E,Lui SF,Li PK,Sanderson J

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new study in dialysis patients demonstrates that more than one-third of rehospitalizations within 30 days of discharge occur within the first week, and these rehospitalizations are associated with worse survival. Imposing a penalty on the dialysis provider for these rehospitalizations, as mandated by the Hospital Re...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Streja E

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：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：: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：BACKGROUND:Home nocturnal hemodialysis is an intensive form of hemodialysis, where patients perform their treatments at home for about 7 hours approximately 6 nights a week. Compared with in-center conventional hemodialysis, home nocturnal hemodialysis has been shown to improve physiologic parameters and reduce health ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： McFarlane PA,Bayoumi AM,Pierratos A,Redelmeier DA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kallistatin is a serine protease inhibitor with anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic, and anti-oxidative properties. Since oxidative stress plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy, we studied the effect and mechanisms of action of kallistatin superinduction. Using ultrasound-microbubble-mediate...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Yiu WH,Wong DW,Wu HJ,Li RX,Yam I,Chan LY,Leung JC,Lan HY,Lai KN,Tang SC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia-reperfusion occurs in a great many clinical settings and contributes to organ failure or dysfunction. CD154-CD40 signaling in leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions or T-cell activation facilitates tissue inflammation and injury. Here we tested a siRNA anti-CD40 in rodent warm and cold ischemia models to che...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： de Ramon L,Ripoll E,Merino A,Lúcia M,Aran JM,Pérez-Rentero S,Lloberas N,Cruzado JM,Grinyó JM,Torras J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From September 9 to October 3, 1994, five patients on maintenance hemodialysis in a dialysis unit in Tokyo contracted hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection successively, and four of them died of fulminant hepatitis. The unit treated 181 patients three times a week on eight shifts, and all five afflicted patients were on t...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tanaka S,Yoshiba M,Iino S,Fukuda M,Nakao H,Tsuda F,Okamoto H,Miyakawa Y,Mayumi M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is known that inhibition of cyclooxygenase (COX) impairs the renal actions of loop diuretics. Recently, we found that cyclosporine A (CsA) inhibits renal COX-2 expression. Therefore, we examined the interferences of CsA with the renal actions of loop diuretics. METHOD:We investigated the renal effects of...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Höcherl K,Kees F,Krämer BK,Kurtz A

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular death continues to be a major problem in renal failure. Structural abnormalities of the heart and the vasculature contribute to the increased cardiovascular risk. They are ameliorated by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, but because of the nonspecifity of ACE inhibition, it is un...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Amann K,Gassmann P,Buzello M,Orth SR,Törnig J,Gross ML,Magener A,Mall G,Ritz E

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00