The evolution and future of immunosuppression in renal transplantation.

abstract：:Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis is a new disease whose incidence has peaked and receded over the past decade. It occurs in the presence of significant renal impairment, either acute or chronic (MDRD creatinine clearance of <30 mL/min/1.73 m(2)), and is associated with the administration of gadolinium-based contrast (GBC...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Hellman RN

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium homeostasis is an important aspect of maternal and fetal physiology during gestation, and recent evidence implicates alterations in calcium metabolism in the pathogenesis of hypertension during pregnancy. Deficiencies in calcium intake have been linked to preeclampsia/eclampsia, and hypocalciuria and deviation...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Hojo M,August P

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies performed over the last 10 years have evaluated the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the control of renal hemodynamics. This article reviews the effects of administration of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) blockers on renal function in experimental animals and human volunteers. These studies show that NOS blockade inc...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Gabbai FB,Blantz RC

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreas transplantation is being performed with increasing frequency and increasing technical success. The availability of new immunosuppressant agents has been associated with a reduction in the previously high rates of allograft rejection in recipients of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants. These lower reject...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Hricik DE

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombotic microangiopathy represents the clinical picture of thrombocytopenia and hemolytic anemia in the setting of small blood vessel thrombosis, accompanied by varying degrees of organ dysfunction. Well known to both nephrologists and hematologists alike, among the most common and best-studied thrombotic microangi...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Motto D

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) represents a common and devastating problem in clinical medicine. A major reason is the lack of early biomarkers for AKI, and hence an unacceptable delay in initiating therapy. Fortunately, the application of innovative technologies has uncovered several novel biomarkers. The most promising o...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Devarajan P

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular remodeling and hypertrophy-hyperplasia of the heart and kidney are the hallmarks of hypertensions, being involved in the long-term maintenance of elevated blood pressure and the development of cardiovascular and renal hypertension. Both augmented proliferation and unscheduled programmed cell death (apoptosis)...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Orlov SN,Tremblay J,Deblois D,Hamet P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure is a critically important aspect to consider in the study and management of drug-induced kidney injury. Although blood concentrations of kidney toxicants often may provide a valid surrogate measure of kidney exposure, the kidney has several unique physiological and biochemical properties that lend themselves ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Li Z,Fisher C,Gardner I,Ghosh A,Litchfield J,Maurer TS

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous pathological processes are involved in the renal tubulointerstitial fibrogenic reaction that occurs after ureteral ligation. Central to these maladaptive events is a florid interstitial monocytic infiltration of the tubulointerstitium, which is preceded by a proximal tubular up-regulation of macrophage chemoa...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Diamond JR,Ricardo SD,Klahr S

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red cell production in chronic kidney disease is usually too low to maintain a normal haemoglobin, and thus anaemia develops in a large proportion of patients. The ability to stimulate erythropoiesis in the bone marrow by the use of therapeutic agents has only been possible in the last 20 years, initially with recombi...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Macdougall IC

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small lipids such as eicosanoids exert diverse and complex functions. In addition to their role in regulating normal kidney function, these lipids also play important roles in the pathogenesis of kidney diseases. Increased glomerular cyclooxygenase (COX)1 or COX2 expression has been reported in patients with nephritis...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Hao CM,Breyer MD

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides loss of life and property, natural disasters result in a number of renal challenges, either by the creation of rhabdomyolysis and crush-induced acute kidney injury or by the destruction of existing dialysis facilities, leaving chronic dialysis patients and kidney transplanted patients without access to their r...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Lameire N,Sever MS,Van Biesen W,Vanholder R

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of organ function and disease processes will be translated in the next millennium into new therapeutic approaches to a wide range of clinical disorders, including acute and chronic renal failure. Central to these new therapies are the developing fields of gen...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Humes HD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review emphasizes four major areas of pediatric hypertension. Because hypertension is the most common reason student athletes fail the sports pre-participation examinations, we have attempted to provide a rationale approach to the decision process to permit a hypertensive child to partake in leisure and competiti...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Feld LG,Springate JE,Waz WR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of natriuretic peptides as key regulators of natriuresis and vasodilatation, and the appreciation that their secretion is under the control of cardiac hemodynamic and neurohumoral factors, has caused wide interest. The natriuretic peptides are structurally similar, but genetically distinct peptides ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Dhingra H,Roongsritong C,Kurtzman NA

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renal biopsy provides critical diagnostic and prognostic information to clinicians including cases of acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and allograft dysfunction. Today, biopsy specimens are read using a combination of light microscopy, electron microscopy, and indirect immunofluorescence, with a limite...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Malone AF,Wu H,Humphreys BD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although calcitriol has been shown to have an important role in the pathogenesis of hyperparathyroidism, its use as a therapeutic agent often has been limited by calcemic and phosphatemic toxicity. Vitamin D analogs and the synthetic prohormones, with the potential to have lesser effects on calcium and phosphorus, hav...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Martin KJ,González EA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apical membrane epithelial Na(+) channel subunit (ENaC) in series with the basolateral Na(+)/K(+)-adenosine triphosphatase mediates collecting duct Na(+) reabsorption. Aldosterone induces αENaC gene transcription, which appears to be rate limiting for ENaC activity in this segment. Although this response has long ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Kone BC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiloride is a prototypic inhibitor of epithelial sodium channels. Rapid progress has been made in our understanding of the structure of the sodium channel and related cation-selective channels. This work, coupled with experiments examining how selected sodium channel mutations affect amiloride binding, provides criti...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Kleyman TR,Sheng S,Kosari F,Kieber-Emmons T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune-mediated nephritis is a common complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It is now clear that multiple and independent mechanisms contribute to disease onset and pathogenesis, which may explain the remarkable phenotypic and histopathological heterogeneity observed in human SLE. Identification and char...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Foster MH,Kelley VR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important component of nephrology research is the discovery of novel proteins that control cellular and molecular events that contribute to normal kidney cell biology and disease. Identifying perturbation of normal cellular protein expression and interactions within signaling networks is critical for understanding ...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Cummins TD,Powell DW

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goodpasture (GP) syndrome is a form of anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease, in which autoantibodies bind to alpha3(IV) collagen in GBM causing rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and pulmonary hemorrhage. The conformational GP epitopes have been mapped to 2 regions within the noncollagenous (NC1) domain...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Borza DB,Neilson EG,Hudson BG

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms regulating the establishment of the glomerular endothelium and mesangium during glomerulogenesis are not understood. In this article, we discuss two different blood vessel growth processes: vasculogenesis and angiogenesis, with particular attention on how these processes might operate in the developing kidn...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Hyink DP,Abrahamson DR

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney disease has been shown to be highly prevalent in cancer patients in the IRMA studies (Renal Insufficiency and Anticancer Medications). Furthermore, anticancer drugs used in those patients, among which half have abnormal renal function, necessitate dosage adjustment in case of reduced renal function and/or is po...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Launay-Vacher V

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by a combination of arterial and/or venous thrombosis, pregnancy morbidity, and the persistent presence of circulating antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). APS has been described as primary APS when it occurs in the absence of any featur...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Sciascia S,Baldovino S,Schreiber K,Solfietti L,Roccatello D

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An expanding proportion of people in the United States and worldwide are affected by kidney disease, leading to a growing concern over the public health implications. Despite the high prevalence and the considerable associated health risks of kidney disease, major gaps in our knowledge base hinder the delivery of opti...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Himmelfarb J,Shankland SJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex pathophysiology, cardio-renal syndrome (CRS), has been redefined in recent years. One subtype is acute renocardiac CRS, or CRS type 3. This syndrome is intended to comprise situations in which acute kidney injury (AKI) results in acute cardiac injury or dysfunction. The pathophysiology of CRS type 3 is not w...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Chuasuwan A,Kellum JA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kidney plays a critical role in regulating water homeostasis through specific proteins highly expressed in the kidney, called aquaporins, allowing water permeation at a high rate. This brief review focuses on some nephropathies associated with impaired urinary concentrating ability and in particular analyzes the r...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Procino G,Mastrofrancesco L,Mira A,Tamma G,Carmosino M,Emma F,Svelto M,Valenti G

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) isoforms are profibrotic cytokines, par excellence, and have complex multifunctional effects on many systems, depending on the biologic setting. Retinoids are vitamin A derivatives that also have diverse effects in development, physiology, and disease. The interactions between thes...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： Xu Q,Kopp JB

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in patients on maintenance hemodialysis have disclosed a high prevalence of sleeping disorders, which have been linked to various factors including blood urea levels, creatinine levels, parathyroid hormone levels, anemia, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, quality of life, disease intrusiveness, and comorb...

journal_title：Seminars in nephrology

authors： De Santo RM,Bartiromo M,Cesare MC,Di Iorio BR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00