abstract：:From September 9 to October 3, 1994, five patients on maintenance hemodialysis in a dialysis unit in Tokyo contracted hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection successively, and four of them died of fulminant hepatitis. The unit treated 181 patients three times a week on eight shifts, and all five afflicted patients were on t...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tanaka S,Yoshiba M,Iino S,Fukuda M,Nakao H,Tsuda F,Okamoto H,Miyakawa Y,Mayumi M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked Alport syndrome (AS) associated with diffuse esophageal leiomyomatosis (DL) has been reported to be due to deletions removing the 5' ends of both the COL4A5 and COL4A6 genes, encoding the alpha 5 and alpha 6 chains of type IV collagen, respectively, whereas a variety of mutations in COL4A5 has been identified...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Dahan K,Heidet L,Zhou J,Mettler G,Leppig KA,Proesmans W,David A,Roussel B,Mongeau JG,Gould JM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) and of dexamethasone on fibronectin (FN) synthesis of human renal tubular epithelial cells in culture (TEC) was studied. Cocultivation with TGF-beta 1 increased the steady state level of FN RNA within 24 to 48 hours. By PCR and Northern blotting it was fo...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Viedt C,Bürger A,Hänsch GM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our genetic hypercalciuric (GH) rats have been selected and inbred for 29 generations to maximize urine calcium (UCa) excretion compared to identical gender controls (Ctl). To determine the effect of the increased UCa on urinary supersaturation and stone formation, we pair fed 15 GH and 15 Ctl rats a standard 1.2% cal...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Bushinsky DA,Grynpas MD,Nilsson EL,Nakagawa Y,Coe FL

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural course of idiopathic membranous nephropathy is variable, with some patients slowly progressing to renal failure while others maintain normal renal function over the entire time. Whether to treat this disease or not is controversial due to the lack of controlled data about the long-term effects of treatment...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ponticelli C,Zucchelli P,Passerini P,Cesana B,Locatelli F,Pasquali S,Sasdelli M,Redaelli B,Grassi C,Pozzi C

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PDGF and TGF-beta are known mediators of mesangial cell proliferation and matrix expansion. The presence of these regulatory factors was examined in 30 renal biopsies from patients with IgA glomerulonephritis (IgA-GN) at the mRNA and protein level. Normal renal tissue served as control. The mRNA expression of PDGF A/B...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Niemir ZI,Stein H,Noronha IL,Krüger C,Andrassy K,Ritz E,Waldherr R

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term treatment (8 and 13 weeks) of rats with FGF-2 led to albuminuria and to increase in serum creatinine indicating the development of chronic renal failure. Histologically, the classic picture of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) was found; males were more severely affected than females. Among the early...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kriz W,Hähnel B,Rösener S,Elger M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of extracellular matrix within the mesangium is an important event in the development of glomerular disease. In this report we have used indirect immunofluorescence to positively identify a number of constituents of the mesangial matrix synthesized by rat mesangial cells (RMC) in vitro including laminin, ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Thomas GJ,Shewring L,McCarthy KJ,Couchman JR,Mason RM,Davies M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether artherosclerosis may be accelerated in uremic patients on maintenance hemodialysis and investigated the risk factors for carotid and femoral atherosclerosis in such patients. High-resolution B-mode ultrasonography was used to determine the intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid and ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kawagishi T,Nishizawa Y,Konishi T,Kawasaki K,Emoto M,Shoji T,Tabata T,Inoue T,Morii H

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) on Raf-1-MAP kinase cascade, including Raf-1-kinase (Raf-1-K), MAP kinase kinase (MAPKK), MAP kinase (MAPK) and S6 kinase (S6K) in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. In a dose-dependent manner (10(-10) M to 10(-6) M), EGF ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Yamada T,Terada Y,Homma MK,Nonoguchi H,Sasaki S,Yuasa Y,Tomita K,Marumo F

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoalbuminemia is the most powerful predictor of mortality in end-stage renal disease. Since protein-calorie malnutrition can decrease albumin synthesis it is assumed that hypoalbuminemia results principally from malnutrition in these patients, but albumin synthesis may also be decreased as part of the acute-phase re...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Kaysen GA,Rathore V,Shearer GC,Depner TA

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic cyclosporine (CsA) nephrotoxicity is a major complication of heart, bone marrow, and renal transplantation, and is characterized in humans by striped interstitial fibrosis, tubular dilatation and atrophy, and hyalinization of hilar arterioles. This last feature is highly specific for cyclosporine injury and ha...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Young BA,Burdmann EA,Johnson RJ,Andoh T,Bennett WM,Couser WG,Alpers CE

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet activating factor (PAF) is a potent lipid mediator with a broad range of biologic activities. Experimental evidence suggests that PAF plays a role in the pathogenesis of a variety of inflammatory processes including allograft rejection. In this study, we evaluated the effects of the PAF antagonist BN52021 on ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Butterly DW,Spurney RF,Ruiz P,Pirotzky E,Braquet P,Coffman TM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1) is a peptide growth factor that is synthesized in cultured mesangial cells and induces hyperplasia. We tested whether incubation with IGF-1 at concentrations of 7 nM, 70 nM, and 350 nM stimulates mesangial cell extracellular matrix mRNA and protein levels, and whether it influences...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Feld SM,Hirschberg R,Artishevsky A,Nast C,Adler SG

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NO, a simple molecule synthesized from L-arginine by NO synthases, has been identified to play an important role in cell communication, cell defense and cell injury. The half life of NO is very short because NO either reacts with superoxide anion (O2-), and/or binds to heme molecules or Fe-S groups present in proteins...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Raij L,Baylis C

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:In vitro metabolic acidosis (Met) induces greater bone mineral resorption than respiratory acidosis (Resp). Met, but not Resp, inhibits osteoblasts which control many aspects of osteoclastic function. To determine whether at a similar decrement in extracellular pH, Met and Resp would induce different changes in intrac...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ori Y,Lee SG,Krieger NS,Bushinsky DA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) has demonstrated that intensive diabetes treatment delays the onset and slows the progression of retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy in patients with IDDM. A detailed description of the effects of this treatment on diabetic nephropathy is presented here. In the ...

journal_title：Kidney international

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更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult male Wistar rats we investigated whether cell proliferation contributes to salt load-induced hypertrophy of distal tubules. In one treatment group salt transport in the thick ascending limb (TAL) was inhibited by furosemide (7.5 mg/100 g body wt/24 hr, via osmotic minipump) and stimulated in the successive di...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Loffing J,Le Hir M,Kaissling B

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic changes due to chronic renal failure (CRF) were studied in isolated liver cells. In 14 CRF and 14 sham-operated rats, liver cells were isolated by the Berry and Friend method and incubated with various substrates in order to study gluconeogenesis, ureagenesis, ketogenesis, oxygen consumption as well as cytos...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Cano N,Catelloni F,Fontaine E,Novaretti R,di Costanzo-Dufetel J,Reynier JP,Leverve XM

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renal growth hormone--insulin-like growth factor-I system in acute ischemic renal failure. Recovery from acute tubular necrosis (ATN) is accelerated by IGF-I therapy. Furthermore, the local renal growth hormone-IGF-I system may participate in the natural repair. We examined the IGF-I system in rat kidneys subjecte...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tsao T,Wang J,Fervenza FC,Vu TH,Jin IH,Hoffman AR,Rabkin R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high frequency (25%) of anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies is observed in French hemodialyzed patients; this is associated with detectable viremia in 85% and results in chronic hepatitis in more than 90%. We conducted a pilot study to examine the tolerance and efficacy of alpha-2b Interferon therapy upon HCV in...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Pol S,Thiers V,Carnot F,Zins B,Romeo R,Berthelot P,Bréchot C

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hormonal responsiveness profile of the cortical collecting duct varies from one species to another. To identify the hormones and agonists that modulate the functions of this tubule segment in the human species, we generated a cell line (HCD) immortalized by SV40 virus. The tubular origin of this cell line was asse...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Prié D,Friedlander G,Coureau C,Vandewalle A,Cassingéna R,Ronco PM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the role of the plasminogen activator/plasmin system in extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation by human mesangial cells cultured on thin films of 125I-labeled ECM (Matrigel). ECM degradation (release of 125I into the medium) was dependent on exogenous plasminogen, proportional to the number of mesangial ce...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Baricos WH,Cortez SL,el-Dahr SS,Schnaper HW

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled trial of cyclosporine in patients diagnosed with progressive membranous nephropathy (MGN) was carried out to determine whether cyclosporine (D) would be more effective than placebo (P) in reducing the rate of deterioration in renal function. Patients (N = 64) with MGN were placed on a restricted protein d...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Cattran DC,Greenwood C,Ritchie S,Bernstein K,Churchill DN,Clark WF,Morrin PA,Lavoie S

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of albumin to the glomerular capillary wall was studied using albumin-gold in perfused kidneys, the interaction of [3H]albumin with isolated glomeruli at 37 degrees C and 4 degrees C and the interaction at [3H]albumin with purified basement membrane. The albumin-gold was found to bind predominantly to the ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Adal Y,Smit MF,Osicka TM,Comper WD

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in macula densa intracellular pH (pHi) were used to monitor the direction of flux mediated by the apical Na:2Cl:K cotransporter. At the macula densa, a decrease in luminal [Cl] ([Cl]1) from 60 to 1 mM produced cellular alkalinization secondary to a cascade of events involving a decrease in apical Na:2Cl:K cotr...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lapointe JY,Laamarti A,Hurst AM,Fowler BC,Bell PD

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that dietary potassium deprivation in healthy human subjects eating diets otherwise containing normal quantities of NaCl is accompanied by an increase in urinary calcium excretion. This increase in urinary Ca excretion occurs in association with reductions in urinary Na and Cl excret...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lemann J Jr,Pleuss JA,Hornick L,Hoffman RG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium transport in the thick ascending limb is conducted by heterogeneous cells to opposite directions. Effects of glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids on potassium transport of the rat medullary thick ascending limb (MTAL) were examined by in vitro microperfusion technique by measuring net potassium flux (JK), ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Tsuruoka S,Muto S,Taniguchi J,Suzuki M,Imai M

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied acid-base balance in 32 patients attending the renal clinic of Mount Sinai Hospital. The parameters of acid-base balance measured included acid production measured as urinary sulfate and organic anions, net acid excretion measured as urinary ammonia plus titratable acid minus bicarbonate, and net GI ab...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Uribarri J,Douyon H,Oh MS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of studying the genetics of chlorambucil mutagenesis, we have uncovered a new model for autosomal polycystic kidney disease (PKD). In the homozygous condition, the gene, jcpk, causes a very severe disease characterized by cysts in all segments of the nephron. Death usually occurs before 10 days of age. E...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Flaherty L,Bryda EC,Collins D,Rudofsky U,Montogomery JC

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the role of clusterin in renal diseases involving a regenerative process, we have used a novel rodent model to compare temporal and spatial expression of clusterin mRNA. Thus, renal artery stenosis was used to induce unilateral non-infarctive renal atrophy. After several weeks, when cellular pathology of at...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Gobé GC,Buttyan R,Wyburn KR,Etheridge MR,Smith PJ

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) may be an important negative feedback modulator of endothelin-1 (ET-1)-stimulated mesangial cell proliferation and contraction. Recent studies suggest that ET-1 may induce prolonged mesangial cell PGE2 production, however the mechanism of this effect is unknown. The current study was undertaken...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Hughes AK,Padilla E,Kutchera WA,Michael JR,Kohan DE

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown a number of different associations between major histocompatibility complex (MHC) alleles and primary systemic vasculitis. Disease heterogeneity and the lack of specificity of certain MHC typing techniques may have contributed to the lack of consistency in those studies. We therefore studie...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Zhang L,Jayne DR,Zhao MH,Lockwood CM,Oliveira DB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open, randomized trial study on the therapeutic effect of recombinant alpha-interferon (IFN alpha) in 40 patients with hepatitis B virus membranous nephropathy (HBVMN) was conducted. All were pathologically proven to have HBVMN which showed no response to corticosteroid treatment represented by persistent heavy pro...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Lin CY

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many renal diseases are associated with fibrin deposition in the glomeruli, a situation that reflects an abnormality in the balance between the coagulation and fibrinolytic systems. We recently demonstrated that normal mouse kidney contains very low levels of type 1 plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1), a potent an...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Keeton M,Ahn C,Eguchi Y,Burlingame R,Loskutoff DJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic metabolic acidosis (CMA) is a major cause of growth defect, implying disturbances of protein metabolism. Previously, in vivo studies performed in the fasting state showed enhanced whole body protein turnover, whereas in vitro studies showed unchanged muscle protein synthesis. The present study is the first to ...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Maniar S,Laouari D,Dechaux M,Motel V,Yvert JP,Mathian B,Kleinknecht C

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the effect of elevated glucose on glomerular cell membrane lipid peroxidation. Glomeruli were isolated from male Sprague-Dawley rat kidneys utilizing a standard sieving method and incubated in medium containing different concentrations of glucose at 37 degrees C for one and 48 hours. The lev...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Ha H,Yoon SJ,Kim KH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was done to investigate the mechanisms that underly the changes of renal renin gene expression upon hypoperfusion of one kidney. To this end the left renal arteries of male Sprague-Dawley rats were clipped with 0.2 mm silver clips and renal renin mRNA levels were assayed by RNase protection during the first...

journal_title：Kidney international

authors： Schricker K,Holmer S,Krämer BK,Riegger G,Kurtz A

更新日期：1994-12-01 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