Glomerular deposition of alpha 2-macroglobulin in a child with steroid refractory nephrotic syndrome.

abstract：:A 62-year-old white male suffering from plasmacytosis with monoclonal gammopathy developed gastrointestinal bleeding, microscopic hematuria, proteinuria and progressive azotemia. A renal biopsy demonstrated capillary wall thickening, mesangial hyperplasia, crescent formation and subepithelial humps. Serum immunoglobul...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Dhar SK,Smith EC,Fresco R

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine the changes of the cyclin/CDK (cyclin dependent kinase)/CKI (CDK inhibitors) system in kidneys during pre- and postnatal development. All protein levels of cyclins (cyclins D1, D3, E, A, B) and protein levels and activities of CDKs (CDK4, CDK2, cdc2) were high in kidneys dur...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Park SK,Kim W,Lee H,Lee DY,Koh GY

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma concentrations of norepinephrine (NE) appear to reflect sympathetic nervous system (SNS) tone. Plasma NE increases substantially when the SNS is stressed by acute postural change or physical exercise. Standing up from the recumbent position elevates NE by about 90% in healthy normotensive and hypertensive subje...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lake CR

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of parathyroid hormone (PTH) infusion on antioxidant enzyme activity and lipid peroxidation of erythrocytes in five-sixths nephrectomized (Nx) rats. Five-sixths Nx rats had a higher osmotic fragility in red blood cells (RBC). Thyroparathyroidectomy (TPTX) effecti...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Chen SM,Young TK

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporine (CsA) nephrotoxicity is partially mediated by renal vasoconstriction due to an imbalance between vasodilator and vasoconstrictor eicosanoids. LSL 90202 is a purified lysine salt of eicosapentaenoic acid which is a known inhibitor of renal eicosanoid synthesis. The aim of the present work was to determine ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Torras J,Valles J,Sanchez J,Sabate I,Seron D,Carrera M,Castelao AM,Herrero I,Puig-Parellada P,Alsina J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA nephropathy besides exhibiting a characteristic geographical distribution has been noted to have a low incidence in the blacks of the USA. There is a paucity of data on IgA nephropathy in the blacks of Africa. We report our findings among the blacks and compare these with Indians. An analysis of the primary glomer...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Seedat YK,Nathoo BC,Parag KB,Naiker IP,Ramsaroop R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION/AIMS:The Acute Kidney Injury Network classification is based on small increases in serum creatinine (sCr) for stage 1. This study investigated whether changes in the urinary concentration of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL) could predict small increases in sCr in patients undergoing coron...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Souza DF,Reis SS,Botelho RV,Ferreira-Filho SR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium-induced renal effects were followed (1989) in 16 workers previously exposed to cadmium, who had been shown 5 years earlier to have had tubular damage; all but 1 worker had persistent tubular damage (beta 2-microglobulin > 60 micrograms/mmol creatinine). The mean glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decreased from ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Järup L,Persson B,Edling C,Elinder CG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the antiplatelet agents, ticlopidine and dipyridamole, on nephrotoxic serum nephritis (NTN) was evaluated in rats. An accelerated form of NTN was induced with preimmunization of rabbit IgG 7 days before injection of rabbit antirat nephrotoxic serum. Twelve animals received a peroral dose of 20 mg of ticl...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Izumino K,Iida H,Asaka M,Sasayama S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritonitis has proven to be the major deterrent to the further growth of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) as a treatment strategy for end-stage renal disease. The correct treatment of peritonitis remains unsettled as evidenced by the presence of advocates for oral, intravenous or intraperitoneal antib...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Harford AM,Sica DA,Tartaglione T,Polk RE,Dalton HP,Poynor W

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that cigarette-smoking affects platelets and endothelium in men and women without renal failure. The present study compared 10 male habitual smokers receiving maintenance hemodialysis for chronic renal failure with 11 healthy male habitual smokers before and after controlled cigarette-smoking a...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Davis JW,Arnold J,Wiegmann T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of the immunosuppressive agent, ciclosporin (CS), on bovine serum albumin (BSA) nephritis in rats was evaluated. Eight weeks after immunization, 19 male Wistar rats received a daily intravenous dose of BSA (2 mg). Two weeks later, 11 rats received BSA and an oral dose of CS (10 mg/kg), and 8 rats received only ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Fujita M,Iida H,Asaka M,Izumino K,Takata M,Sasayama S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old white man presented with severe chronic renal failure. He had no past or present symptomatic glucose intolerance nor a family history of diabetes mellitus. Several fasting plasma glucose determinations, hemoglobin Alc and an oral glucose tolerance test were normal. Funduscopic ophthalmoscopy and retinal ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： da Silva EC,Saldanha LB,Pestalozzi MS,del Bueno IJ,Barros RT,Marcondes M,Nussenzveig I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in plasma composition of essential fatty acids (EFAs) may be associated with the etiology of pruritus and other skin problems in patients undergoing hemodialysis. To study whether an oral supplementation with omega-6 (n-6) EFAs would restore deranged plasma EFAs and ameliorate skin symptoms, 9 and 7 dial...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yoshimoto-Furuie K,Yoshimoto K,Tanaka T,Saima S,Kikuchi Y,Shay J,Horrobin DF,Echizen H

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphologic basis of proteinuria in experimental chronic serum sickness glomerulonephritis in rabbits was studied by light and electron microscopy using horseradish peroxidase (effective radius 30 A; mol. wt. 40,000) and ferritin (effective radius 60 A; mol. wt. 480,000) as protein tracers. It was found that more ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： O'Connell DW,Brentjens JR,Andres GA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Permanent loss of the ultrafiltration (UF) capacity of the peritoneum has been observed with an increasing frequency among our patients treated by long-term intermittent (IPD) and/or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). The analysis of various characteristics of our PD population (patients age, dialysis t...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Slingeneyer A,Canaud B,Mion C

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to elucidate immunopathogenic of membranous nephropathy (MN), freshly collected sera from patients with biopsy proven MN were assayed of circulating immune complexes (ICs) by the Raji cell method and for anti-renal tubular epithelial (RTE) antibodies by a newly established radioimmunoassay (RIA) and by in...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Zager RA,Couser WG,Andrews BS,Bolton WK,Pohl MA

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal nevus syndrome is an unusual neurocutaneous disorder in which epidermal nevi are associated with abnormalities of the skeleton and central nervous system, including the eyes and somtimes the cardiovascular system. We treated a patient in whom the latter included renal artery stenosis. An 18-year-old man with...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Aizawa K,Nakamura T,Ohyama Y,Saito Y,Hoshino J,Kanda T,Sumino H,Nagai R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubular necrosis elicits a process of renal tissue repair characterized by an increase of cell turnover in tubular epithelium. The present study was undertaken to examine the distribution of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and/or of its larger precursor proEGF in the kidney undergoing tubular regeneration. Sprague-Dawle...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Nonclercq D,Toubeau G,Lambricht P,Heuson-Stiennon JA,Laurent G

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum specimens from 99 selected renal patients were examined over a 3-year period by both a hemagglutination technique (HA) and an indirect immunofluorescent (IIF) method for the presence of circulating antibody against tubular basement membrane (TBM). 11 patients were found with anti-TBM antibodies. 6 of them also h...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Cattran DC

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renal biopsies of 15 patients affected by polydipsia syndromes were examined under light and electron microscopes. The authors contend that the observed renal lesions (dilatation of the glomerular loops, tubular hypertrophy and vacuolization, and basal membrane swelling) are the morphologic result of tubular hyper...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Naccarato R,Rizzo A,Sirigu F,Bertaglia E,Previato G,Fiaschi E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:The impact of dialysis membrane permeability on neutrophil transmigration properties in vitro was examined in the present study. This issue has not been fully scrutinized before. METHODS:We studied the capacity of neutrophils collected from a group of dialysis patients randomly treated with cuprophan, l...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Moshfegh A,Jacobson SH,Halldén G,Thylén P,Lundahl J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 55-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital, complaining of general malaise, muscular weakness, anorexia and weight loss. She had a history of ingesting of a certain germanium (Ge) compound over the preceding 19 months, with a total dose of 47 g as Ge element. She was found to have renal failure (blood urea nitro...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Takeuchi A,Yoshizawa N,Oshima S,Kubota T,Oshikawa Y,Akashi Y,Oda T,Niwa H,Imazeki N,Seno A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sclerostin is an osteocyte hormone that decreases osteoblastogenesis. Sclerostin may play a key role in osteoporosis and also in vascular calcification (VC). In chronic kidney disease and haemodialysis (HD) patients, serum sclerostin levels are high. AIM:To assess the correlation of serum sclerostin levels ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Jean G,Chazot C,Bresson E,Zaoui E,Cavalier E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients who experience superimposed acute kidney injury (AKI) have been shown to be at higher risk of long-term sequelae of AKI when compared to those who do not experience AKI. It remains unclear whether the need for temporary dialysis intervention following superimposed AKI in...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Omotoso BA,Turgut F,Abdel-Rahman EM,Xin W,Ma JZ,Scully KW,Arogundade FA,Balogun RA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and infections in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) arises partly due to a high inflammatory state and aberrations in immune cells function. Following in vitro stimulation of leukocytes with different T-cell mitogens, we observed a lower level of i...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Mansouri L,Nopp A,Jacobson SH,Hylander B,Lundahl J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood eosinophils were counted by the counting-chamber method in 21 regular hemodialysis patients. Before dialysis, eosinophil counts were within the normal range in all patients (mean 98 cells/mm3, range 6-350). After the first 15 min of hemodialysis, with not reused coils or hollow-fiber dialysers, a significant dro...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Bodner G,Peer G,Zakuth V,Spirer ZH,Aviram A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed to determine the effect of caffeine on the development of renal hypertension. Two-kidney, 1-clip (2K1C) hypertension and deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA, 200 mg/kg, subcutaneous implantation)-salt (0.9% NaCl drinking) hypertension were instituted in Sprague-Dawley rats. They were then gro...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Choi KC,Lee J,Moon KH,Park KK,Kim SW,Kim NH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acid-base disturbances are frequent in critically ill patients. Arterial blood gas (ABG) is the gold standard in the diagnosis of these disturbances, but it is invasive with potential hazards. For patients with a central venous catheter, venous blood gas (VBG) sampling may be an alternative, less-invasive di...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Schrauben SJ,Negoianu D,Costa C,Cohen RM,Goldfarb S,Fuchs BD,Berns JS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator -(suPAR) is an inflammatory signal with pleiotropic biological effects depending on context and post-translational modifications. Recently, [Hayek, et al: Nat Med 2017; 23: 945-953] it has been found that there is a link between suPAR and renal disease in several gui...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Saleem MA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00