abstract：:In this study we investigated the interactions between volume changes (body weight), plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (pANP) and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) in 10 patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing regular hemodialysis (HD) treatment three times weekly. Most patients retained their diurnal BP variati...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ojanen S,Pietilä K,Pasternack A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the regulation of vasopressin receptors in an animal model of hypertension, localization and age-related changes in renal arginine vasopressin (AVP) receptors in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were investigated using in vitro (macro) autoradiography and a radiolabeled receptor assay. Autoradiograp...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hosoya M,Ogura T,Watanabe H,Ota Z,Kageyama Z

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the best time of administration of desferrioxamine (DFO) with respect to the dialysis session, using the approach of the stochastic dynamic system, integrated with the classical pharmacokinetic models. In the 6 patients studied, the mean arrival times of DFO, aluminoxamine (AlO) and ferrioxamine (FO) w...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Andriani M,Nordio M,Saporiti E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple three-pump-based system for the performance of continuous venovenous haemodialysis is described. The method employs access to the circulation via a double-lumen catheter, and by means of a standard extracorporeal peristaltic pump the blood is circulated through a haemofiltration filter. Standard solutions for...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Møller Jensen D,Bistrup C,Pedersen RS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyomyositis, an endemic disease of tropical origin, is increasingly reported in temperate zones, especially in patients with diabetes mellitus and in the immunocompromised. A 28-year-old renal transplant recipient presented with perforating skin lesions (Kyrle's disease), thigh pain, and swelling associated with fever...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Habte-Gabr E,Zayas JA,Rosenbaum RW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between markers of tubular function, markers of glycaemic control and erythrocyte sodium-lithium countertransport activity (SLC) in 40 normotensive, normoalbuminuric insulin-dependent diabetic (IDDM) subjects and 11 normal control subjects. Nine IDDM subjects had SL...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Catalano C,Winocour PH,Parlongo S,Gibb I,Gillespie S,Alberti KG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of contrast media on renal function and the cortical retention of contrast media after abdominal angiography were investigated. Sixteen nondiabetic patients with predialytic chronic renal failure received either the nonionic dimeric contrast medium iodixanol or the monomeric contrast medium iohexol in a do...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Jakobsen JA,Berg KJ,Kjaersgaard P,Kolmannskog F,Nordal KP,Nossen JO,Rootwelt K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been associated with several renal disorders. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura/hemolytic uremic syndrome (TTP/HUS) were also described in several patients with overt AIDS. We describe a patient who presented with HUS and only subsequent investigation to find the caus...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Badesha PS,Saklayen MG

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate autonomic mechanisms underlying persistent hypotension in long-term hemodialysis patients, high-frequency (HF, > 0.15 Hz) and low-frequency (LF, 0.04-0.15 Hz) components of heart rate variability and plasma noradrenaline were analyzed in 10 persistently hypotensive hemodialysis patients (group H), 11 no...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Takahashi H,Matsuo S,Toriyama T,Kawahara H,Hayano J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glomerular mesangium is an important site of activity in patients with heroin addiction. We studied the effect of morphine, a metabolite of heroin, on the mesangial immunoglobulin G aggregate uptake in a model of specific mesangial cell injury. Isolated specific mesangial cell injury was developed in Lewis rats by...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Singhal PC,Pan CQ,Sagar S,Valderrama E,Stahl RA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize renal cell carcinoma tissue by the measurement of microacoustic properties. A scanning acoustic microscope system operating in the frequency range of 100-200 MHz was employed and the attenuation constant and sound speed were measured on the two-dimensional distribution. Th...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sasaki H,Tanaka M,Saijo Y,Okawai H,Terasawa Y,Nitta S,Suzuki K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of renal allografts in patients who had received pretransplant immunoadsorption in order to remove cytotoxic anti-HLA antibodies was studied. We reviewed 6 patients who received a graft which functioned beyond 3 months; the mean follow-up period was 76 (range 62-89) months. Two grafts have been lost from ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Higgins RM,Bevan DJ,Vaughan RW,Phillips AO,Snowden S,Bewick M,Scoble JE,Hendry BM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old man with sclerosing mesenteritis developed the nephrotic syndrome. Percutaneous renal biopsy revealed classical histologic findings of minimal change nephropathy with a mild interstitial nephritis. Immunomodulation with prednisone led to a rapid and complete remission of the proteinuria but did not alter...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Vernace MA,Bellucci AG,Mossey RT,Susin M,Mailloux LU,Wilkes BM,Katz S,Eskreis D

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective efficacy of three schedules of a recombinant hepatitis B vaccine was evaluated in 42 patients undergoing dialysis at a teaching hospital. The rate of seroconversion after vaccination was highest (82.3%) among the recipients of three 20-micrograms doses (i.e. double the conventional dose for healthy adul...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Mitwalli A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed 10 patients (male:female 9:1, mean age 64.2 years) who developed hepatocellular carcinoma during the observation period of 2 years among 2,164 chronic hemodialysis patients in 23 dialysis centers. Among them, 409 patients were positive for serum anti-HCV antibodies (19%). They were all positive for serum a...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sakai Y,Izumi N,Tazawa J,Uchihara M,Akiba T,Marumo F,Sato C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular complications seriously affect posttransplant survival in patients after successful renal transplantation. Abnormalities in blood rheology may contribute to these complications. Therefore, we studied the blood rheology before and during a 1-year observation period after grafting in 9 patients by serial ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Koppensteiner R,Derfler K,Ehringer H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During hemodialysis therapy, a large amount of water is removed from the patient's blood in a short time; however, blood pressure remains stable in most patients. As water is removed, the circulating serum proteins become more concentrated, resulting in a marked increase in the driving force which pulls water from the...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tabei K,Nagashima H,Imura O,Sakurai T,Asano Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal scarring is considered to be a characteristic of reflux nephropathy. The effects of ulinastatin, a strong inhibitor of polymorphonuclear leukocyte elastase, on renal scarring following direct parenchymal or intravesical ascending infection by Serratia marcescens or Escherichia coli were determined. Four days of ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Matsumoto T,Haraoka M,Mizunoe Y,Takahashi K,Kubo S,Sakumoto M,Tanaka M,Kumazawa J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the reliability of urinary trehalase activity as a marker of cellular proliferation and/or damage of renal proximal tubules, the activity was examined in healthy newborn infants or infants treated with tobramycin, a drug known as causing tubular cell damage. Eighty-one newborn infants (56 mature infants and...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sasai-Takedatsu M,Kojima T,Taketani S,Ono A,Kitamura N,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1987, we have experienced 11 children with acute renal failure (ARF) associated with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (YP) infection. The illness began with the sudden onset of high fever, skin rash and gastrointestinal symptoms. Later in the course, periungual desquamation developed, mimicking Kawasaki disease. Elev...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Cheong HI,Choi EH,Ha IS,Lee HJ,Choi Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As with many other amino acids the transport of cystine across the tubular epithelium is coupled to a parallel transport of sodium. We have studied the effect of a sodium-restricted diet on the urinary excretion of cystine in 13 patients with cystinuria, 7 of whom were treated with the SH compound tiopronin (2-mercapt...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lindell A,Denneberg T,Edholm E,Jeppsson JO

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the plasma levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in patients with end-stage renal disease treated with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). In 10 CAPD patients mean plasma ET levels (7.01 +/- 0.5 pg/ml) were found higher than in normal subjects (3.6 +/- 0.6 pg/ml). Peritoneal clearance of ET-1 ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Vlassopoulos D,Deray G,Carayon A,Maistre G,Jacobs C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unknown whether continuous renal replacement techniques result in diminished morbidity and mortality when compared to conventional dialytic techniques. To investigate this issue a previously described, retrospectively studied group of critically ill patients with severe acute renal failure treated by conventiona...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Bellomo R,Farmer M,Parkin G,Wright C,Boyce N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokines tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and its soluble TNF receptors 55 and 75 (sTNFR55, sTNFR75), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1BETA) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were measured in plasma from 13 patients with the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) on admission. No significant changes in the plasma levels of TNF-alp...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： van de Kar NC,Sauerwein RW,Demacker PN,Grau GE,van Hinsbergh VW,Monnens LA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, activity of polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMNL) intracellular antioxidant enzymes, i.e. catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX), was assessed in CRF patients on hemodialysis (HD), or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and in healthy controls. The activit...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Shurtz-Swirski R,Mashiach E,Kristal B,Shkolnik T,Shasha SM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Deoxyglucosone (3-DG) has been identified as an intermediate of the Maillard reaction in vitro. We measured serum 3-DG levels using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and found a marked elevation in serum 3-DG levels in uremic patients compared with healthy subjects. The uremic patients with diabetes showed signif...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Niwa T,Takeda N,Miyazaki T,Yoshizumi H,Tatematsu A,Maeda K,Ohara M,Tomiyama S,Niimura K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied complexes composed of C1q and beta 2-microglobulin (C1q.beta 2M) or serum amyloid P-component (C1q.SAP) in the sera of 38 patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) and 20 healthy control subjects using an enzyme-linked immunoassay. We also compared complex levels in HD patients with and without symptoms of HD-as...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hasegawa M,Kawashima S,Shikano M,Kojima K,Yanai T,Hassegawa H,Tomita M,Murakami K,Kawamura N,Katsumata H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 64-year-old woman presenting with a history of increasing oedema was found to have nephrotic syndrome with a 24-hour urinary protein excretion of 20.7 g and renal impairment with an initial serum creatinine level of 197 mumol/l (2.16 mg/dl). A renal tumour was demonstrated by ultrasound scanning and subsequent nephr...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Woodrow G,Innes A,Ansell ID,Burden RP

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypokalemia and potassium depletion are frequent complications of amphotericin B therapy. Both ischemic and gentamicin-induced renal failure is potentiated by potassium depletion; it is, therefore, possible that amphotericin B nephrotoxicity is similarly influenced. This study evaluated whether the acute nephrotoxic r...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Bernardo JF,Murakami S,Branch RA,Sabra R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1991, to assess the risk of occupational exposure to blood or other body fluids in health-care workers (HCWs) working in the dialysis setting, properly trained interviewers used standardized questionnaires asking the 583 HCWs employed in 19 Italian dialysis units to recall exposures sustained in the previous year. ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ippolito G,Petrosillo N,Puro V,Arici C,Jagger J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional ultrastructure of glomerular basement membrane (GBM) in surgically resected human kidneys was observed by the quick-freezing and deep-etching method. In three layers of human GBM, the middle layer exhibited polygonal meshwork structures, which were composed of fine fibrils. In addition, the outer...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Moriya T,Ohno S,Yajima Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:We examined the types of guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory (G) protein subunits in isolated glomeruli, cortices excluding glomeruli and medullas of rat kidneys using bacterial toxin-catalyzed adenosine 5'-diphosphate (ADP) ribosylation and specific immunoblots. ADP ribosylation catalyzed by cholera or pertussis to...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yanagisawa H,Kurihara N,Klahr S,Morrissey J,Wada O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case, seemingly sporadic, in which ocular and acral malformations were associated with an interstitial nephropathy; we made a diagnosis of acro-renal-ocular syndrome. There was no stasis, reflux, or urinary tract infection in our patient. We believe that interstitial nephritis in acro-renal-ocular syndro...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Boscutti G,Pizzolitto S,Montanaro D,Messa P,Messa M,Favazza A,Beltrami CA,Mioni G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) excretion was measured in 33 patients including 10 with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 8 with focal glomerular sclerosis (FGS), 9 with IgA nephropathy (IgAN), and 6 with membranous nephropathy (MN), and in 7 healthy subjects by enzyme-linked immunosorbent ass...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kanai H,Mitsuhashi H,Ono K,Yano S,Naruse T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although serologic studies have identified hantaviral infection in the United States, acute disease has not been recognized. This study describes 3 cases of domestically acquired hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in the United States. Infection was due to a local strain of Seoul virus (Baltimore rat virus)....

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Glass GE,Watson AJ,LeDuc JW,Childs JE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a high-protein (HP) and low-protein (LP) meal on glomerular filtration rate (GFR), effective renal plasma flow (ERPF), and renal vascular resistance (RVR) were examined in conscious dogs. Ingestion of the HP and LP meal produced a temporary increase in systemic hemodynamic parameters due in part to a 'c...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Zawada ET,Saelens DA,Alavi FK,Lembke JM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) is a specific inhibitor of interleukin-1 (IL-1). It is structurally similar to IL-1 and binds to IL-1 cell surface receptors, but does not transduce a signal. To examine the relationship between the production of IL-1Ra and IL-1, we incubated peripheral blood mononuclear cell...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Pereira BJ,King AJ,Falagas ME,Dinarello CA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunofluorescence, we studied 19 patients with IgA nephropathy to determine whether the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 in glomeruli might reflect the disease activity. The relationship between the expression of ICAM-1 and the infiltration of lymphocytes, monocytes and polymorphonuclear l...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tomino Y,Ohmuro H,Kuramoto T,Shirato I,Eguchi K,Sakai H,Okumura K,Koide H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of T cell-mediated immunity in the early phase of nephrotoxic serum nephritis (NTN) was examined by transfer of pan T, CD8-positive, and CD4-positive cells. The disease was induced by transferring rabbit gamma-globulin (RGG)-sensitized T cells to nude (rnu/rnu) rats pretreated with a subnephritogenic dose (a ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kuroda T,Kawasaki K,Oite T,Arakawa M,Shimizu F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00