The role of M1/M2 macrophage polarization in the pathogenesis of obesity-related kidney disease and related pathologies by Periklis Dousdampanis, Ioanna Aggeletopoulou, Ioanna Aggeletopoulou, Athanasia Mouzaki

Subjects: “…chronic kidney disease…”
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Invasive micropapillary urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis presenting as nonfunctional kidney: A unique presentation and review of the literature by Mohammed Shahin, Sagar R. Tripathy, Prasant Nayak, Prasanna Ram, Pavithra Ayyanar

“…The tumor infiltrated into the kidney, renal sinus, perinephric fat, adrenal gland, and Gerota’s fascia. …”
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Correlating the Optical Coherence Tomography Patterns and Biomarkers of Diabetic Macular Edema with Hemoglobin Level in Diabetic Kidney Disease by Gopalakrishnan N, Nagaraju SP, George NM, Bhandary SV, Kamath YS, Shetty SS, Nair SS, Kuzhuppilly NI, S S

“…Nikhil Gopalakrishnan,1 Shankar Prasad Nagaraju,2 Neenu Mariam George,3 Sulatha V Bhandary,4 Yogish S Kamath,4 Sushan Shankar Shetty,4 Soumya S Nair,4 Neetha IR Kuzhuppilly,4 Shailaja S4 1Department of Retina, Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; 2Department of Nephrology, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Udupi, Karnataka, India; 3Aravind Eye Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India; 4Department of Ophthalmology, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Udupi, Karnataka, IndiaCorrespondence: Shailaja S; Sushan Shankar Shetty, Department of Ophthalmology, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Udupi, Karnataka, 576104, India, Tel +91 9686125861, Fax +91-820-2571934, Email shailaja.s@manipal.edu; sushan.shetty@manipal.eduPurpose: To correlate the optical coherence tomography (OCT) based morphological patterns of diabetic macular edema (DME) and prognostic biomarkers with severity of anaemia in patients with diabetic kidney disease (DKD).Patients and Methods: Single centre, observational cross sectional study of 42 eyes of 42 patients with DME and DKD. …”
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Aerobic exercise attenuates high-fat diet–induced renal injury through kidney metabolite modulation in mice by Yingzhe Xiong, Yisheng Luan, Lingfeng Yuan, Weihao Hong, Bin Wang, Hua Zhao, Bing Zhang

“…Mice were acclimated to the laboratory for 1 week, given 12 weeks of being on their respective diets, and then the Con + Ex and HFD + Ex groups were subjected to moderate intensity aerobic treadmill running 45 min/day, 5 days/week for 8 weeks.Results We found that HFD-induced obesity mainly impacts kidney glycerin phospholipids, glycerides, and fatty acyls, and aerobic exercise mainly impacts kidney glycerides, amino acids and organic acids as well as their derivatives. …”
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Highly Effective Ex Vivo Gene Manipulation to Study Kidney Development Using Self-Complementary Adenoassociated Viruses by Tie-Lin Chen, Hong-Lian Wang, Yun-Hong Liu, Yin Fang, Rui-Zhi Tan, Pu-Hui Zhou, Qin Zhou, Xiao-Yan Lv

“…Ex vivo culture of intact embryonic kidney has become a powerful system for studying renal development. …”
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Basiliximab is superior to low dose rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin in pediatric kidney transplant recipients: The younger, the better by Lan Zhu, Lei Zhang, Wenjun Shang, Wenhua Liu, Rula Sa, Zhiliang Guo, Longshan Liu, Jinghong Tan, Hengxi Zhang, Yonghua Feng, Wenyu Zhao, Wenqi Cong, Jianyong Wu, Changxi Wang, Gang Chen, Sihan Zhou

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Association between weekend catch-up sleep and chronic kidney disease: insights from NHANES 2017–2020 by Sheng Chen, Ting Zhang, Hongjun Gao, Jianqiang Zhang

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Sex-specific differences in the efficacy of renal denervation in patients with resistant hypertension depending on visceral obesity and kidney function by Irina Zyubanova, Nadezhda Ryumshina, Victor Mordovin, Musheg Manukyan, Valeriya Lichikaki, Ekaterina Solonskaya, Anna Gusakova, Tatjana Suslova, Stanislav Pekarskiy, Simzhit Khunkhinova, Anastasia Popova, Veronika Rudenko, Alla Falkovskaya

“…Renoprotective effects of RDN in men are obtained regardless of the initial kidney function, while in women, it was observed only in individuals with CKD. …”
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Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings of Kidneys with Obstructive Uropathy: Differentiation between Benign and Malignant Etiology by Tugce Ozlem Kalayci, Melda Apaydin, Fitnet Sönmezgöz, Sinan Çalık, Melike Bedel Koruyucu

“…There were significant differences in the ADC values of obstructed kidneys compared to those of normal kidneys. Obstructed kidneys with malignant etiology had lower ADC values for b1000 compared to obstructed kidneys with benign etiology, but these alterations were statistically insignificant.…”
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Association of Circulating Neprilysin with BMI, Cardiovascular Health, and Kidney Function in High-Risk Pregnancies: A Pilot Study by Kaltrina Kutllovci Hasani, Azra Kulovic-Sissawo, Adam Saloň, Christina Stern, Karoline Mayer-Pickel, Mila Cervar-Zivkovic, Nandu Goswami, Herbert Fluhr, Ursula Hiden

“…By late pregnancy, sNEP was positively associated with glomerular filtration rate and inversely correlated with creatinine and protein levels, reflecting improved kidney function. Women with GH exhibited elevated sNEP, while former smokers had lower sNEP levels in early pregnancy. …”
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Facilitating active participation in anticoagulant decisions in advanced kidney disease: co-production of a question prompt list by Kathrine Parker, Abigail Needham, Jecko Thachil, Sandip Mitra, Penny Lewis

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A Global Survey of Self-Reported Cancer Screening Practices by Health Professionals for Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients by Nida Saleem, Nida Saleem, Nida Saleem, Wai H. Lim, Wai H. Lim, Jacqueline H. Stephens, Jacqueline H. Stephens, Annabelle Wilson, Billie Bonevski, Allison Jaure, Allison Jaure, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Eleonora Dal Grande, Eleonora Dal Grande, Martin Howell, Martin Howell, Farzaneh Boroumand, Farzaneh Boroumand, Anita van Zwieten, Anita van Zwieten, Chandana Guha, Chandana Guha, Nicole Scholes-Robertson, Nicole Scholes-Robertson, Steven J. Chadban, Steven J. Chadban, Carmel M. Hawley, Carmel M. Hawley, Jonathan C. Craig, Jeremy R. Chapman, Danyal Hassan, Greg Knoll, Greg Knoll, Naoka Murakami, Germaine Wong, Germaine Wong, Germaine Wong

Subjects: “…kidney transplantation…”
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Small molecule APOL1 inhibitors as a precision medicine approach for APOL1-mediated kidney disease by Brandon Zimmerman, Leslie A. Dakin, Anne Fortier, Evanthia Nanou, Angelo Blasio, James Mann, Howard Miller, Marissa Fletcher, Tiansheng Wang, Suganthini Nanthakumar, Gizelle McCarthy, Caline Matar, Prachi Matsye, Guanyu Wang, Phillip Snyder, Kevin Daniel, Harsha Swamy, Kelly Sullivan, Franklin Bright, Audrey Powers, Kevin J. Gagnon, Fan Lu, Steven Paula, Suvarna Khare-Pandit, Larry Henry, Martine Hamel, Francois Denis, Olivier Nicolas, Niresh Hariparsad, Shyamesh Kumar, Jennifer Proctor, Timothy Senter, Brinley Furey, Mark E. Bunnage

“…Genome wide association studies have identified the G1 and G2 variants in the apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene as major contributors to a subtype of proteinuric kidney disease now referred to as APOL1-mediated kidney disease (AMKD). …”
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A Note on the Minimum Wiener Polarity Index of Trees with a Given Number of Vertices and Segments or Branching Vertices by Sadia Noureen, Akhlaq Ahmad Bhatti, Akbar Ali

“…The Wiener polarity index of a graph G, usually denoted by WpG, is defined as the number of unordered pairs of those vertices of G that are at distance 3. …”
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Postdiagnostic use of antihypertensive medications and survival in colorectal, lung, corpus uteri, melanoma and kidney cancer patients with hypertension by Rūta Everatt, Irena Kuzmickienė, Birutė Brasiūnienė, Ieva Vincerževskienė, Birutė Intaitė, Saulius Cicėnas, Ingrida Lisauskienė

“…Methods The association between 1-year postdiagnostic AH medication intake and the risk of death was examined in a population-based cohort of cancer patients including colorectal (N = 1104), lung (N = 344), melanoma (N = 334), corpus uteri (N = 832) and kidney cancer (N = 714), diagnosed between 2013 and 2015, and identified from the Lithuanian Cancer Registry. …”
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Acute Kidney Injury, Recurrent Seizures, and Thrombocytopenia in a Young Patient with Lupus Nephritis: A Diagnostic Dilemma by Hector Alvarado Verduzco, Anjali Acharya

“…She was found to have acute kidney injury and thrombocytopenia. Repeat kidney biopsy showed diffuse endocapillary and extracapillary proliferative and membranous lupus nephritis (ISN-RPS class IV-G+V) and endothelial swelling secondary to severe hypertension but no evidence of TMA. …”
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The Impact of Specific Gut Microbiota Metabolites on Chronic Kidney Disease Progression: Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets by Daria Dąbkowska, Agnieszka Mioskowska, Joanna Szydziak, Aleksandra Hrapkowicz, Kinga Janowska, Olga Szeidl, Dominika Rehan, Julia Wołoszczak

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Early therapeutic drug monitoring of methotrexate and its association with acute kidney injury: A retrospective cohort study by Nicolás Tentoni, Miriam Hwang, Gabriela Villanueva, Ryan Combs, Jennifer Lowe, Laura B. Ramsey, Zachary L. Taylor, Thais Murciano Carrillo, María Dolores Aumente, Teresa López‐Viñau López, Carmelo Rizzari, Scott C. Howard

Subjects: “…acute kidney injury…”
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Machine learning-based prediction of in-hospital mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury by Tianyun Gao, Zhiqiang Nong, Yuzhen Luo, Manqiu Mo, Zhaoyan Chen, Zhenhua Yang, Ling Pan

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The Correlation between Social Deixis and Social Class in a Speech by Nobel Prize Winners: A Sociopragmatic Study by Annur Karima Zulyanputri, Lia Maulia Indrayani, Ypsi Soeria Soemantri

“…Thus, the usage of social deixis by Nobel Prize winners in their speech, are analysed. The data are taken from the banquet speech of Nobel Prize winners. …”
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