Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Vasopressin and the regulation of aquaporin-2

Justin L. L. Wilson, Carlos A. Miranda, Mark A. Knepper

Diagnosis and therapy of atheromatous renal artery stenosis

Masayuki Tanemoto

Heavy chain deposition disease: an overview

Yuji Oe, Jun Soma, Hiroshi Sato, Sadayoshi Ito

Effect of low-osmolar contrast medium iopromide and iso-osmolar iodixanol on DNA fragmentation in renal tubular cell culture

Ulla Ludwig, Julia Connemann, Frieder Keller

The intercalated cells of the mouse kidney OMCDis are the target of the vasopressin V1a receptor axis for urinary acidification

Yukiko Yasuoka, Mizuka Kobayashi, Yuichi Sato, Ming Zhou, Hiroshi Abe, Hirotsugu Okamoto, Hiroshi Nonoguchi, Akito Tanoue, Katsumasa Kawahara

CCL2/CCR2 augments the production of transforming growth factor-beta1, type 1 collagen and CCL2 by human CD45-/collagen 1-positive cells under high glucose concentrations

Akinori Hara, Norihiko Sakai, Kengo Furuichi, Yoshio Sakai, Motohiro Takeya, Richard Bucala, Naofumi Mukaida, Yoh Takuwa, Kouji Matsushima, Shuichi Kaneko, Takashi Wada

Albuminuria is an independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the Japanese population: the Takahata study

Tsuneo Konta, Kosuke Kudo, Hiroko Sato, Kazunobu Ichikawa, Ami Ikeda, Kazuko Suzuki, Atsushi Hirayama, Yoko Shibata, Tetsu Watanabe, Makoto Daimon, Takeo Kato, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Takamasa Kayama, Isao Kubota

Reduced podocin expression in minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is related to the level of proteinuria

Vinita Agrawal, Narayan Prasad, Manoj Jain, Rakesh Pandey

Japan Diabetic Nephropathy Cohort Study: study design, methods, and implementation

Kengo Furuichi, Miho Shimizu, Tadashi Toyama, Daisuke Koya, Yoshitaka Koshino, Hideharu Abe, Kiyoshi Mori, Hiroaki Satoh, Masahito Imanishi, Masayuki Iwano, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Eiji Kusano, Shouichi Fujimoto, Yoshiki Suzuki, Seiya Okuda, Kiyoki Kitagawa, Yasunori Iwata, Shuichi Kaneko, Shinichi Nishi, Hitoshi Yokoyama, Yoshihiko Ueda, Masakazu Haneda, Hirofumi Makino, Takashi Wada

Nationwide survey on current treatments for IgA nephropathy in Japan

Keiichi Matsuzaki, Yusuke Suzuki, Junichiro Nakata, Naoko Sakamoto, Satoshi Horikoshi, Tetsuya Kawamura, Seiichi Matsuo, Yasuhiko Tomino

The effects of tolvaptan on patients with severe chronic kidney disease complicated by congestive heart failure

Tomoyuki Otsuka, Yukinao Sakai, Dai Ohno, Tsuneo Murasawa, Naoki Sato, Shuichi Tsuruoka

Age and prediction of remission and relapse of proteinuria and corticosteroid-related adverse events in adult-onset minimal-change disease: a retrospective cohort study

Maki Shinzawa, Ryohei Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Nagasawa, Susumu Oseto, Daisuke Mori, Kodo Tomida, Terumasa Hayashi, Masaaki Izumi, Megumu Fukunaga, Atsushi Yamauchi, Yoshiharu Tsubakihara, Hiromi Rakugi, Yoshitaka Isaka

Serum level of soluble (pro)renin receptor is modulated in chronic kidney disease

Kazu Hamada, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Yoshiko Shimamura, Kosuke Inoue, Koji Ogata, Masayuki Ishihara, Taro Horino, Shimpei Fujimoto, Takashi Ohguro, Yukio Yoshimoto, Mika Ikebe, Kenji Yuasa, Eri Hoshino, Tatsuo Iiyama, Atsuhiro Ichihara, Yoshio Terada

Erratum to: Serum level of soluble (pro)renin receptor is modulated in chronic kidney disease

Kazu Hamada, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Yoshiko Shimamura, Kosuke Inoue, Koji Ogata, Masayuki Ishihara, Taro Horino, Shimpei Fujimoto, Takashi Ohguro, Yukio Yoshimoto, Mika Ikebe, Kenji Yuasa, Eri Hoshino, Tatsuo Iiyama, Atsuhiro Ichihara, Yoshio Terada

Long-term observations of clinicopathological characteristics and outcome of Japanese patients with pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis

Kiyoki Kitagawa, Kengo Furuichi, Yasuyuki Shinozaki, Tadashi Toyama, Shinji Kitajima, Akinori Hara, Yasunori Iwata, Norihiko Sakai, Shuichi Kaneko, Takashi Wada

Replication study for the association of 3 SNP loci identified in a genome-wide association study for diabetic nephropathy in European type 1 diabetes with diabetic nephropathy in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes

Shiro Maeda, Minako Imamura, Mahiro Kurashige, Shinichi Araki, Daisuke Suzuki, Tetsuya Babazono, Takashi Uzu, Tomoya Umezono, Masao Toyoda, Koichi Kawai, Masahito Imanishi, Kazushige Hanaoka, Hiroshi Maegawa, Yasuko Uchigata, Tatsuo Hosoya

Reference ranges for serum cystatin C measurements in Japanese children by using 4 automated assays

Nahoko Yata, Osamu Uemura, Masataka Honda, Takeshi Matsuyama, Kenji Ishikura, Hiroshi Hataya, Takuhito Nagai, Yohei Ikezumi, Naoya Fujita, Shuichi Ito, Kazumoto Iijima, Mari Saito, Tetsuji Keneko, Teruo Kitagawa

Creatinine-based equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate in Japanese children aged between 2 and 11 years old with chronic kidney disease

Takuhito Nagai, Osamu Uemura, Kenji Ishikura, Shuichi Ito, Hiroshi Hataya, Yoshimitsu Gotoh, Naoya Fujita, Yuko Akioka, Tetsuji Kaneko, Masataka Honda

Polymorphism in the human matrix Gla protein gene is associated with the progression of vascular calcification in maintenance hemodialysis patients

Kazuhiro Yoshikawa, Hideharu Abe, Tatsuya Tominaga, Masayuki Nakamura, Seiji Kishi, Motokazu Matsuura, Kojiro Nagai, Kenji Tsuchida, Jun Minakuchi, Toshio Doi

Factors associated with the incidence of dialysis

Satoshi Ogata, Shinichi Nishi, Kenji Wakai, Kunitoshi Iseki, Yoshiharu Tsubakihara

Randomized comparative trial of mizoribine versus mycophenolate mofetil in combination with tacrolimus for living donor renal transplantation

Shiro Takahara, Kota Takahashi, Takahiro Akiyama, Kazuharu Uchida, Kazunari Tanabe, Noritoshi Amada, Hiroshi Toma

Polycystic horseshoe kidney

Eleonora Riccio, Massimo Imbriaco, Michele Santangelo, Antonio Pisani

Pleural effusion in peritoneal dialysis: overload or leakage?

Eleonora Riccio, Gennaro Argentino, Antonio Pisani, Bruno Memoli

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