abstract：:A very simple analytical procedure with dimethylmethylene blue as photometric reagent was applied for the evaluation of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) urinary excretions and concentrations in both sexes, calcium oxalate stone formers, and a control group. The GAG concentrations varied significantly in stone formers (males an...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Grases F,Llompart I,Conte A,Coll R,March JG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 57-year-old man with end-stage renal failure due to chronic glomerulonephritis, who had been on hemodialysis for 13.5 years and had suffered from recurrent painful swelling of the left leg for 4.7 years. A diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis was made by the phlebography. Coagulation studies showed decreas...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Maruyama H,Gejyo F,Hanano M,Arakawa M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement factor D, a complement system serine protease, circulating in vivo as its active form, accumulates in patients with chronic renal failure. The pathophysiological role of this active protease in these patients was examined by studies on activities of excess factor D on 10 synthetic peptide substrates for som...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Inagi R,Miyata T,Oda O,Maeda K,Inoue K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the adhesion molecules LFA-1 (CD11a-CD18), Mac-1 (CD11b-CD18), and LAM-1 on predialysis and intradialysis neutrophils (PMN) was analyzed by flow cytometry in 10 chronic hemodialysis patients (CHD) and compared with age-matched normal controls. All patients were dialyzed either with a polyacrylonitril...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Zachée P,Daelemans R,Pollaris P,Boogaerts MA,Lins RL

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methodology for the collection, extraction, separation and measurement of urinary angiotensin II [the octapeptide, ANG(1-8)] is described. To determine the origin of urinary ANG(1-8), mean arterial pressure, renal hemodynamics and the arterial, renal venous and urinary concentrations of ANG(1-8) were examined prio...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Reams G,Villarreal D,Wu Z,Bauer JH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ultrastructure of the bovine glomerular basement membrane (GBM) and tubular basement membrane (TBM) using ultra-high-resolution scanning electron microscopy after conductive staining without metal coating. Purified basement membranes (BMs) were obtained by sonication and acellular BMs by detergent trea...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yamasaki Y,Makino H,Ota Z

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify whether the changes of parathyroid size have any correlations with the long-term prognosis of calcitriol pulse therapy, we examined the time course of serum levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and size of parathyroid glands in 14 chronic dialysis patients during and after the oral calcitriol pulse therapy. ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Fukagawa M,Kitaoka M,Yi H,Fukuda N,Matsumoto T,Ogata E,Kurokawa K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) were measured in urine, serum and tissues from rats with nephrotic syndrome (NS) induced with a single subcutaneous dose of puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN; 15 mg/100 g BW). Control animals were pair-fed. Urine was collected daily, and the rats were sacrificed on day 10. PAN-nephrotic rats had...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Pedraza-Chaverrí J,Torres-Rodríguez GA,Cruz C,Mainero A,Tapia E,Ibarra-Rubio ME,Silencio JL

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal infection with verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) has been strongly implicated in the etiology of the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), the leading cause of pediatric acute renal failure. The binding of fluorescein-conjugated VT1 overlaid on to frozen human renal sections has been examined. Se...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lingwood CA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic cyclosporine nephrotoxicity is characterized morphologically by cortical interstitial fibrosis. The most important collagens involved in renal fibrosis are collagen types I and III. In order to estimate the synthesis of type III and type I collagens, we analyzed serum levels of the amino-terminal propeptide of...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Heickendorff L,Frost L,Madsen JK,Pedersen EB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemistry and function of vanadate and its possible role in health as well as in disease remains one of the most fascinating stories in biology. This review has surveyed the pertinent literature regarding its effect in the normal kidney and other tissues. While inhibition of the Na(+)-K+ ATPase enzyme was the f...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Dafnis E,Sabatini S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with collagenofibrotic glomerulopathy associated with hepatic persinusoidal fibrosis is described. Renal biopsy revealed that the glomerular tufts contained homogeneous material that was proved by electron microscopy to be collagen fibers. The material was reactive to anti-type III collagen monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Mizuiri S,Hasegawa A,Kikuchi A,Amagasaki Y,Nakamura N,Sakaguchi H

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:A 51-year-old Japanese man was referred for the evaluation of persistent hyponatremia. The serum sodium level remained around 120 mmol/l despite mild water restriction. His past history included chronic alcoholism, myocardial infarction and lumbar disc herniation. Carbamazepine (200 mg, b.i.d.) has been used for more ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kamiyama T,Iseki K,Kawazoe N,Takishita S,Fukiyama K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the mechanism of peritoneal dialysis fluid inhibition of cell functions, laboratory-prepared fluids were used to investigate the specific influences of low pH and high lactate concentration on neutrophil viability, phagocytosis, respiratory burst activation and leukotriene B4 (LTB4) generation. I...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Liberek T,Topley N,Jörres A,Petersen MM,Coles GA,Gahl GM,Williams JD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopexamine hydrochloride is a synthetic dopamine analogue recently developed to improve myocardial and renal performance in patients suffering from low cardiac output states. The present study was designed to assess the pharmacological profile and the anatomical localization of [3H]-dopexamine binding sites within the...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Napoleone P,Cavallotti C,Ricci A,Amenta F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to determine whether intraperitoneal and oral administration of formalin-fixed gram-negative bacteria induced immunohistologically and ultrastructurally evident glomerular deposition of IgA and C3 in C3H/HeN mice. Separate treatments with strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Haemo...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Endo Y,Kanbayashi H,Hara M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radial arterial spasm in uremic patients undergoing construction of internal arteriovenous (AV) dialysis fistulas was investigated transcutaneously using ultrasonic Doppler flowmetry. In 5 of 15 patients, radial arterial blood flow was significantly decreased 5 min after anastomosing the radial cephalic vein with the ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Owada A,Saito H,Mochizuki T,Tanaka M,Otsuka M,Yokoyama Y,Fukuda S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal and streptozotocin diabetic rats were subjected to ischemic injury by unilateral renal artery occlusion for 60 min. The cortical and the medullary oxygen consumption (QO2) in the postischemic and the control, contralateral nonischemic, kidneys were measured 1 h, 1 day, and 1, 2 and 4 weeks for normal rats and 1...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kuramochi G,Homma S

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis are not uncommon in patients with Wilson's disease but have only once been reported as the presenting sign. We diagnosed Wilson's disease in a 17-year-old male patient 6 years after his first episode of gross hematuria and 2 years after detection of hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinos...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hoppe B,Neuhaus T,Superti-Furga A,Forster I,Leumann E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugated diene fatty acids (CDFA) were evaluated by second derivative spectrophotometry in the plasma and adipose tissue of 42 chronic renal failure (CFR) patients in conservative treatment, 40 patients treated by hemodialysis (HD) with cuprophane, cellulose acetate or hemophan, 29 treated by hemodiafiltration (HDF)...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lucchi L,Banni S,Botti B,Cappelli G,Medici G,Melis MP,Tomasi A,Vannini V,Lusvarghi E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumstantial evidence that pIgA has a key role in glomerular injury of IgAN is now strong. Although the answers to the questions posed in this review are necessarily incomplete, they do indicate that (1) pIgA is a major component of mesangial IgA. (2) circulating pIgA is increased and this pIgA is particularly enhan...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Harper SJ,Feehally J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific lipid alterations in plasma and four different tissues, as well as the activities of plasma lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) and tissue lipolytic enzymes were determined in experimental nephrotic and control rats. In nephrotic rats, the cholesterol level in the heart was significantly increased...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Agbedana ED,Yamamoto T,Moriwaki Y,Suda M,Takahashi S,Higashino K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation in blood plasma and efficiency of hemodialysis of pyrimidine compounds (orotic acid, orotidine, pseudouridine, uridine, thymine) as well as uric acid and creatinine in 23 patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) was investigated. As a reference, the analysis of the above metabolites in the plasma of ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Daniewska-Michalska D,Motyl T,Gellert R,Kukulska W,Podgurniak M,Opechowska-Pacocha E,Ostrowski K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ExHC rats were bred from the Sprague-Dawley strain and are highly susceptible to dietary hypercholesterolemic stimuli. Although chemical and histological examination of the aorta from ExHC rats fed a diet containing 3% cholesterol, 0.6% sodium cholate and 15% olive oil (high-cholesterol diet, HCD) has been reported, r...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hattori M,Yamaguchi Y,Kawaguchi H,Ito K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate effects of metabolic acidosis on glucose metabolism in uremia, we studied, by an intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT), 46 patients with severe chronic renal failure divided into three groups according to their blood bicarbonate (BB) values: group A formed by 15 patients without or with light...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Allegra V,Mengozzi G,Martimbianco L,Vasile A

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:The relationship between glycosaminoglycans and beta 2-microglobulin, glycosaminoglycans and N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase as well as the relationship between the chondroitin sulfate/heparan sulfate ratio and SDS electrophoresis in the urine of subjects from the endemic area of Balkan nephropathy was studied in orde...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Juretić D,Cvoriscec D,Vuković-Holjevac A,Benković J,Lipovac K,Stavljenić A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is already a considerable amount of evidence suggesting that fibronectin (Fn) plays an important role in the pathogenic process in some forms of glomerulonephritis (GN). It has been postulated that Fn may participate in the progression or regression of glomerular diseases. The Fn is presented in the kidney as a ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Altunkova I,Minkova V,Belovezhdov N

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To avoid the use of aluminium as a phosphate binder, patients on CAPD who were stable were dialysed against a peritoneal dialysis fluid which was magnesium free. A mixture of calcium and magnesium carbonate was used as a phosphate binder over a period in excess of 1 year. Vitamin D analogues were used in the majority....

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Parsons V,Baldwin D,Moniz C,Marsden J,Ball E,Rifkin I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mysterious deaths of archeologists after opening Egyptian tombs have been suspected to be secondary to inhalation of mycotoxin, however, the hypothesis has never been verified. Recently, we observed a case of acute renal failure (ARF) undeniably due to inhalation of ochratoxin of Aspergillus ochraceus. After spending ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Di Paolo N,Guarnieri A,Loi F,Sacchi G,Mangiarotti AM,Di Paolo M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of vasoactive peptides such as endothelin (ET), calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and human atrial natriuretic peptide (hANP) in the regulation of blood pressure in uremic patients, and to determine the effect of various types of dialyzer membranes on hemodialysis (HD)-induced changes in pla...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Niwa T,Fujishiro T,Uema K,Tsuzuki T,Tominaga Y,Emoto Y,Miyazaki T,Maeda K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of acute beta 2-type adrenoreceptor activation with intravenous albuterol on plasma and urinary sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphate and lithium were investigated in 9 volunteers during acute hydration. When compared with the control infusion with inactive vehicle, beta 2-type adrenoreceptor ac...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Duss G,Bianchetti MG,Cattaneo FA,Mullis PE,Krämer R,Peheim E,Oetliker OH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of dilazep, an adenosine potentiator and platelet aggregation inhibitor, on experimental diabetic nephropathy was investigated in spontaneous diabetic Chinese hamster. Prediabetic animals, 8 weeks of age, were divided into two groups. In one group, 5 mg/kg dilazep was injected i.p. once a day. In the other ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Morikawa A,Eto M,Makino I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A four-year-old male with steroid refractory nephrotic syndrome was found to have diffuse deposition of alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) in the glomeruli which showed diffuse mesangial proliferation and partial hyalinization by light microscopy. Camostat mesylate, a commercially available synthetic proteinase inhibito...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Asami T,Ohsawa S,Tomisawa S,Hashimoto K,Toyabe S,Sakai K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the presence of anti-HCV antibodies in a uremic chronic (UC) patient population after 6 months and 1 year with regard to certain selective preventive measures. The nonincreased number of HCV-positive subjects among the UC population could lead to the conclusion that the risk of environmental spre...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Di Benedetto A,Bilotta E,Minale S,Tritto MC,Russo Spena S,Picardi E,Sorice P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HCV is seen as an emergent problem in Dialysis Units; in fact, the patients of these centers are at high risk for blood-transmitted infections, through coming microepidemies. For this reason and using the same method, we have studied the prevalence of anti-HCV and virus-derived hepatitis in a dialytic population of 10...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Scotto G,Savastano AM,Forcella M,Tantimonaco G,Amato G,Salatino G,Pappani A,Stella I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:136 patients on hemodialysis, 89 males and 47 females, were studied; we evaluated the index of hepatic function (SGOT and SGPT) and antibodies against HCV. We observed 42 cases of increased transaminases classified as non-A, non-B (NANB) hepatitis. Antibodies against HCV were present in 40 patients. Among 42 patients ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： La Russa A,Bufano G,Cauzzi L,Pecchini P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the incidence of painless (silent) myocardial ischemia, manifested as S-T segment deviation, by Holter ECG monitoring in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing regular hemodialysis. Forty-five patients underwent Holter ECG monitoring for a continuous 48-hour period covering dialysis and the int...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kremastinos D,Paraskevaidis I,Voudiklari S,Apostolou T,Kyriakides Z,Zirogiannis P,Toutouzas P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00