N-acetylcysteine attenuates the progression of chronic renal failure.

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:Immune response to oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) may modulate the process of atherogenesis and cardiovascular disease. METHODS:We performed a prospective, observational cohort study in 249 patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) to examine whether the serum titer of anti-oxLDL antibody can p...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Shoji T,Fukumoto M,Kimoto E,Shinohara K,Emoto M,Tahara H,Koyama H,Ishimura E,Nakatani T,Miki T,Tsujimoto Y,Tabata T,Nishizawa Y

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is a protective response to remove dangerous stimuli from the body. The multiprotein complex called the inflammasome regulates inflammation through the cleavage of proinflammatory cytokines into mature forms. Shahzad et al. unravel the importance of the Nlrp3 inflammasome, especially activated in glomerul...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Sakai N,Wada T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulointerstitial nephritis antigen (TIN-ag) is an extracellular matrix (ECM) glycoprotein that has been recently isolated and cloned from the rabbit kidney. It is an integral component of the basal lamina, and unlike other basement membrane proteins it is exclusively expressed in the tubular basement membranes (TBMs...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kumar A,Ota K,Wada J,Wallner EI,Charonis AS,Carone FA,Kanwar YS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal involvement in von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease has emerged as the most prevalent cause of death in this hereditary disorder. In a group of 43 VHL patients (23 unrelated families) with renal lesions we examined whether severity of renal disease is affected by parental inheritance and VHL subtype (1, without pheoc...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Chauveau D,Duvic C,Chrétien Y,Paraf F,Droz D,Melki P,Hélénon O,Richard S,Grünfeld JP

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of dialysis on cognitive trends is uncertain. Kurella Tamura et al. evaluated cognitive trajectories in 212 participants from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort study and found that dialysis initiation was associated with a decline in executive function. This is consistent with a cerebrovascular basis f...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Iyasere O,Brown EA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detailed mechanisms of glucocorticoid action in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome and progressive glomerulonephritides have not been clearly elucidated. The pharmacological actions of glucocorticoids are mediated by their binding to an intracellular protein, the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The determinatio...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Yan K,Kudo A,Hirano H,Watanabe T,Tasaka T,Kataoka S,Nakajima N,Nishibori Y,Shibata T,Kohsaka T,Higashihara E,Tanaka H,Watanabe H,Nagasawa T,Awa S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrarenal artery infusions of hypertonic saline can activate tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF), decreasing renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR). The response to infusion of hypertonic saline is enhanced by salt depletion and attenuated by salt loading, but has not previously been investigated in ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Heidemann HT,Jackson EK,Gerkens JF,Branch RA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than two isoforms have been identified for angiotensin receptors based on their ligand selectivity. The objective of this study is to determine the molecular structure of angiotensin type 2 receptor (AT2), whose physiological functions are still an enigma despite extensive studies on its distribution in fetal tis...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kambayashi Y,Takahashi K,Bardhan S,Inagami T

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Hyperlipidemia is a risk factor for long-term renal transplant dysfunction, but no prospective clinical trials have investigated the effects of statin treatment on graft function in renal transplant recipients. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of fluvastatin on long-term renal transpla...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Fellström B,Holdaas H,Jardine AG,Holme I,Nyberg G,Fauchald P,Grönhagen-Riska C,Madsen S,Neumayer HH,Cole E,Maes B,Ambühl P,Olsson AG,Hartmann A,Logan JO,Pedersen TR,Assessment of Lescol in Renal Transplantation Study Inve

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parathyroid hormone (PTH) response to hypocalcemia was studied in 18 hemodialysis patients with osteitis fibrosa, and the relationship with PTH and bone histology in 26 hemodialysis patients. Hypocalcemia was produced during hemodialysis by the use of a dialysate devoid of calcium. Both amino (N) (P less than 0.05...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Voigts A,Felsenfeld AJ,Andress D,Llach F

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toward an etiological classification of developmental disorders of the kidney and upper urinary tract. There are a large number of developmental disorders and syndromes that affect the kidney and upper urinary tract. These have generally been classified according to morphological criteria established decades ago. Alth...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Pohl M,Bhatnagar V,Mendoza SA,Nigam SK

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) is widely used to study renal fibrosis; however, renal injury can only be scored semiobjectively by histology. We sought to improve the UUO model by reimplanting the obstructed ureter followed by removal of the contralateral kidney, thus allowing longitudinal measurem...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tapmeier TT,Brown KL,Tang Z,Sacks SH,Sheerin NS,Wong W

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measured at 5 years' diabetes duration and annual urine albumin excretion in a prospective cohort of children with type 1 diabetes (T1DM). METHODS:Three hundred and eight children were followed from diagnosis ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Amin R,Turner C,van Aken S,Bahu TK,Watts A,Lindsell DR,Dalton RN,Dunger DB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renal effects of a single intravenous dose of two different E. coli lipopolysaccharides (LPS 0111:B4 and LPS 0127:B8), at the same dose of 100 micrograms/kg, were evaluated in euvolemic Munich-Wistar (MW) rats by whole kidney clearance techniques and micropuncture studies. Following LPS infusion, a significant dec...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lugon JR,Boim MA,Ramos OL,Ajzen H,Schor N

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen subjects with persistent azotemia and normal glomerular filtration rate were studied by renal clearances and hormonal determinations to establish the nephron site of altered urea transport and the mechanism(s) responsible for their azotemia. During constant alimentary protein, urea nitrogen appearance was nor...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Conte G,Dal Canton A,Terribile M,Cianciaruso B,Di Minno G,Pannain M,Russo D,Andreucci VE

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) and its receptor, fibroblast growth factor-inducible 14 (TWEAK-Fn14), are widely expressed and are involved in both injury and repair. Hotta et al. now demonstrate an important role for Fn14 in the common clamp ischemia model of acute kidney injury. Their da...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Weinberg JM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In seven patients on maintenance hemodialysis, de novo recurrent renal stone formation was observed. In all patients, the underlying disease was glomerulonephritis, with or without the nephrotic syndrome. All patients had considerable persistent proteinuria. The stones consisted predominantly of protein, as revealed b...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Bommer J,Ritz E,Tschöpe W,Waldherr R,Gebhardt M

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:The defect in urinary acidification induced by amphotericin B (AMB) was further characterized in turtle bladder. Since AMB has been shown to increase the hydrogen ion (H+) permeability of this epithelium in the absence of exogenous bicarbonate ions (HCO3-), we explored the permeability characteristics in the presence ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Finn JT,Cohen LH,Steinmetz PR

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow (BM) cells are reported to contribute to the process of regeneration following myocardial infarction. The present study examined two independent clonal studies to determine the origin of bone marrow (BM)-derived cardiomyocytes. First, we transplanted single CD34(-)c-kit(+)Sca-1(+)lineage(-) side population...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Fukuda K,Fujita J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal salt wasting and hypotension are some of the frequent complications in patients treated with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (cDDP), and it is suggested that cDDP produces an abnormality in the renin-angiotensin system. However, not only the underlying mechanism but also prophylactic treatment of thi...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Iida T,Makino Y,Okamoto K,Yoshikawa N,Makino I,Nakamura T,Tanaka H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulated production of adipocytokines may be involved in the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in metabolic syndrome and chronic kidney disease (CKD) associated with metabolic syndrome. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of treatment with angiotensin II (Ang II) type-1 receptor ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kurata A,Nishizawa H,Kihara S,Maeda N,Sonoda M,Okada T,Ohashi K,Hibuse T,Fujita K,Yasui A,Hiuge A,Kumada M,Kuriyama H,Shimomura I,Funahashi T

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:The clinical demographics of chronic dialysis patients are changing worldwide. However, long-term data from regional dialysis registries have not yet been analyzed and reported. METHODS:The Okinawa Dialysis Study (OKIDS) registry included all chronic dialysis patients treated in Okinawa, Japan, since 1971. ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Iseki K,Tozawa M,Iseki C,Takishita S,Ogawa Y

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis patients have a high risk of cardiovascular disease. Cardiac rehabilitation is recommended in the general population as a standard component of care and covered by Medicare for those who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Here we determined the impact of cardiac rehabilitation on Medicare ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Huang Y,Zhang R,Culler SD,Kutner NG

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether alpha (alpha)-adrenoceptor agonists have a stimulatory effect on the expression of the angiotensinogen (Ang) gene in opossum kidney (OK) cells, we used OK 27 cells with a fusion gene containing the 5'-flanking regulatory sequence of the rat angiotensinogen gene fused with a human growth hormone ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Wang TT,Lachance S,Delalandre A,Carrière S,Chan JS

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome (SRNS) in children and young adults has differing etiologies with monogenic disease accounting for 2.9-30% in selected series. Using whole exome sequencing we sought to stratify a national population of children with SRNS into monogenic and non-monogenic forms, and further define t...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Bierzynska A,McCarthy HJ,Soderquest K,Sen ES,Colby E,Ding WY,Nabhan MM,Kerecuk L,Hegde S,Hughes D,Marks S,Feather S,Jones C,Webb NJ,Ognjanovic M,Christian M,Gilbert RD,Sinha MD,Lord GM,Simpson M,Koziell AB,Welsh

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EDTA (calcium disodium edetate) lead mobilization and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) finger bone lead tests were done in 42 patients with chronic renal failure and without persisting lead intoxication. Nineteen of 23 patients with gout and 8 of 19 without gout had positive EDTA lead mobilization tests. Those patients with g...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Craswell PW,Price J,Boyle PD,Heazlewood VJ,Baddeley H,Lloyd HM,Thomas BJ,Thomas BW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00