KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL Volume 68, December 2005 Official Journal of the International Society of Nephrology Le Journal Oficiel de la Société Internationale de Néphrologie Accumulated table of contents A MESSAGE TO OUR READERS Changing of the Guard. Jan J. Weening and Eric G. Neilson A TRIBUTE TO COMGAN The global perspective of the International Society of Nephrology: A decade of experience with COMGAN. John H. Dirks and Sheila W. Robinson CARDIOVASCULAR AND RENAL PROGRESSION FACTORS IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE: A COLLOQUIUM IN HONOR OF JOHN H. DIRKS ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2005 Singapore, June 26, 2005 Introduction. Barry M. Brenner Cardiovascular risk factors in chronic kidney disease. Vandana Menon, Ambreen Gul, and Mark J. Sarnak Chronic kidney disease in patients with cardiac disease: A review of evidence-based treatment. John J.LV. McMurray Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and anemia among participants in the Reasons for Geo- graphic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Cohort Study: Baseline results. David G. Warnock, William McClellan, Leslie A.M cClure, Britt Newsome, Ruth C. Campbell, Paul Audhya, Mary Cushman, Virginia J. Howard, and George Howard Optimal anemia management reduces cardiovascular morbidity, mortality, and costs in chronic kidney disease. Madhumathi Rao and Brian J.G. Pereira Targets to retard the progression of diabetic nephropathy. Mark E. Cooper, Karin Jandeleit-Dahm, SE FOIE oir ciisnscndentnisecdsatingasattandctanesdtnoitkesaondamastettiaeacee Progression of microalbuminuria in type | diabetes: Ten-year prospective observational study. Peter Rossing, Philip Hougaard, and Hans-Henrik Parving I a I TE isi iccasis p20 soi serondeda beseudaiebaadisnvetaalaa dtiweteaseeeenss s FOREFRONTS IN NEPHROLOGY STEM CELL AND REGENERATION OF THE KIDNEY Karuizawa, Japan January 20-22, 2005 Introduction. Matsuhiko Hayashi and Enyu Imai Neural stem cells and regeneration of injured spinal cord. Hideyuki Okano, Seiji Okada, Masaya Nakamura, and Yoshiaki Toyama Stem cells and progenitor cells in renal disease. Hermann Haller, Kirsten de Groot, Ferdinand Bahlmann, Marlies Elger, and Danilo Fliser Stem cell therapy for human brain disorders. Olle Lindvall and Zaal Kokaia Mesenchymal, but not hematopoietic, stem cells can be mobilized and differentiate into cardiomy- ocytes after myocardial infarction in mice. Keiichi Fukuda and Jun Fujita Roles of HNF-1B in kidney development and congenital cystic diseases. Peter Igarashi, Xinli Shao, Brian T: McNally, and Thomas Hiesberger Essential roles of Sa/l/ in kidney development. Ryuichi Nishinakamura and Minoru Takasato The role of Notch signaling in specification of podocyte and proximal tubules within the developing mouse kidney. Hui-Teng Cheng and Raphael Kopan Organogenesis of the endocrine pancreas. Marc R. Hammerman Kidney tubular epithelium is restored without replacement with bone marrow-derived cells during repair after ischemic injury. Jeremy S. Duffield and Joseph V. Bonventre ABSTRACTS Repair of the damaged heart. Annarosa Leri, Jan Kajstura, Federico Quaini, Konrad Urbanek, Roberto Bolli, and Piero Anversa Patterning of the mammalian kidney. Andrew P. McMahon Essential role of COUP-TFII in vascular formation. Ming-Jer Tsai, Li-Ru You, Fu-Jung Lin, and Sophia Y. Tsai Structure and sequential gene expression of in vitro—induced pronephros (kidney) in the amphibian development. Makoto Asashima Role of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in kidney development and injury. Brigitte Lelongt, Soraya Bengatta, and Pierre Ronco GZFI1,anew GDNF-inducible gene, is required for renal branching morphogenesis. Naoyuki Fukuda, Takatoshi Morinaga, and Seiichi Matsuo Circadian rhythm orchestrates the cell cycle of rat renal epithelial cells: A novel mechanism to regulate the cell cycle. Takahito Ito, Masaya Yamato, and Norio Ishida Cardiac and renal cell lineage derived from stem cells: Implication for organ regeneration. Raghu Kalluri Growth factor enhancement of mammalian regeneration. Nadia Rosenthal Establishment of renal stem/progenitor-like cell line from $3 segment of proximal tubules in adult rat kidney. Shinji Kitamura, Yasushi Yamasaki, and Hirofumi Makino Do we really need “stem” cell for renal regeneration. Keiichi Hishikawa Ex vivo regeneration of the murine kidney from human mesenchymal stem cells. Takashi Yokoo and Tetsuya Kawamura Lymphatic neoangiogenesis in human neoplasia and transplantation as experiments of nature. Dontscho Kerjaschki Molecular and genetic analyses of renal capillary development: Studying the angiopoietin/Tie axis. Adrian S. Woolf Wnt-4 and Ets-1 signaling pathways for regeneration after acute renal failure. Yoshio Terada, Hiroyuki Tanaka, and Sei Sasaki Search for genes expressed during progression and recovery in the diseased kidney. Toshiaki Monkawa and Matsuhiko Hayashi Reversing EMT. Jun-ichi Hanai Up-regulation in the kidney and its genetic polymorphism of MUC20, a regulator of Met signaling cascade, in patients with IgA nephropathy. /chiei Narita, Bassam Alchi, Fuminori Sato, Daisuke Saga, Asa Ogawa, Yutaka Tsubata, Daisuke Kondo, Minoru Sakatsume, Tadashi Yamamoto, and Fumitake Gejyo Life-supporting pig-to-baboon renal transplantation using GalT knockout donors: Benefit of cotrans- planting a vascularized donor thymic graft. Kazuhiko Yamada HGF gene transfer increases kidney graft survival. Yoshitaka Isaka and Kazuhiko Yamada The future of renal replacement: Needs and applications. Jeffrey L. Platt A REPORT OF THE EDITOR Report of the Editor, July 1997 to December 2005. Saulo Klahr PERSPECTIVES IN RENAL MEDICINE Chronic renal allograft rejection: Pathophysiologic considerations. Simone A. Joosten, Yvo W.J. Sijpkens, Cees van Kooten, and Leendert C. Paul Pathogenesis of vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease. Mario Cozzolino, Diego Brancaccio, Maurizio Gallieni, and Eduardo Slatopolsky Unraveling the racial disparities associated with kidney disease. Keith C. Norris and Lawrence Y. Agodoa (see Editorial by Pugsley, p. 1364) Posttransplantation chronic renal damage in nonrenal transplant recipients. Piero Stratta, Caterina Canavese, Marco Quaglia, Federico Balzola, Marco Bobbio, Alessandro Busca, Alessandro Franchello, Daniela Libertucci, and Gianna Mazzucco Vitamin D and its analogues: Do they protect against cardiovascular disease in patients with kidney disease? Adeera Levin and Yan Chun Li What we CAN do about chronic allograft nephropathy: Role of immunosuppressive modulations. Behdad Afzali, Anna L. Taylor, and David J.A. Goldsmith PERSPECTIVES IN BASIC MEDICINE Pathophysiology of contrast medium-induced nephropathy. Pontus B. Persson, Peter Hansell, and Per Boho ats Cans Seas avn Dim Gs Pen AA ww aE GRA a ee PERSPECTIVES IN BASIC SCIENCE Macrophages and progressive tubulointerstitial disease. Kevin Sean Eardley and Paul Cockwell Obstructive nephropathy: Insights from genetically engineered animals. Jean-Loup Bascands and Joost P. Schanstra Myeloablative chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation in myeloma or primary amyloidosis with renal involvement. Morie A. Gertz, Nelson Leung, Martha Q. Lacy, and Angela Dispenzieri Evolving concepts in the quantitative analysis of the determinants of the plasma water sodium concentration and the pathophysiology and treatment of the dysnatremias. /ra Kurtz and Minhtri K. Nguyen Nuclear receptors and their coregulators in kidney. Xiong Z. Ruan, Zac Varghese, Stephen H. Powis, and John F. Moorhead GENETIC DISORDERS —- DEVELOPMENT Fish mesonephric model of polycystic kidney disease in medaka (Oryzias latipes) pc mutant. Emiko Mochizuki, Katsuhiro Fukuta, Tatsuya Tada, Tomohiro Harada, Naoki Watanabe, Seiichi Matsuo, Hisashi Hashimoto, Kenjiro Ozato, and Yuko Wakamatsu Nephroprotection by antifibrotic and anti-inflammatory effects of the vasopeptidase inhibitor AVE7688. Oliver Gross, Marie-Louise Koepke, Bogdan Beirowski, Eckhard Schulze-Lohoff, Stephan Segerer, and Manfred Weber Aprt/Opn double knockout mice: Osteopontin is a modifier of kidney stone disease severity. Hilary J. Vernon, Christine Osborne, Eleni G. Tzortzaki, Min Yang, Jianmen Chen, Susan R. Rittling, David T: Denhardt, Steven Buyske, Sharon B. Bledsoe, Andrew P. Evan, Lynette Fairbanks, H. Anne Simmonds, Jay A. Tischfield, and Amrik Sahota A comparative study of three kidney biomarker tests in autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease. J. Antonio Casal, Jestis Hermida, Xosé M. Lens, and J. Carlos Tutor Mutagenesis of the epithelial polarity gene, discs large 1, perturbs nephrogenesis in the developing mouse kidney. Eman Naim, Alan Bernstein, John F. Bertram, and Georgina Caruana Segregation of urine calcium excretion in families ascertained for nephrolithiasis: Evidence for a major gene. J.C. Loredo-Osti, Nicole M. Roslin, Josée Tessier, T: Mary Fujiwara, Kenneth Morgan, and Alain NPN 555 5 sssd stain ct a neuen ida piniorosm Sins lb nia avg is Aang cad GAS varr m ee Be ttle acc Mapping of a new candidate locus for uromodulin-associated kidney disease (UAKD) to chromo- some 1q41. Kate*ina Hodariova, Jacek Majewski, Martina Kublova, Petr Vyletal, Marie Kalbaéova, Blanka Stiburkova, Helena Hulkova, Yvon C. Chagnon, Christian-Marc Lanouette, Anthony Marinaki, Jean-Pierre Fryns, Gopalakrishnan Venkat-Raman, and Stanislav Kmoch Impact of polymorphisms in the genes encoding xylosyltransferase I and a homologue in type | dia- betic patients with and without nephropathy. Sylvia Schén, Christian Prante, Sandra Miiller, Manuela Schottler, Lise Tarnow, Joachim Kuhn, Knut Kleesiek, and Christian Gotting Analyses of coding region polymorphisms in apical and basolateral human organic anion transporter (OAT) genes [OAT1 (NKT), OAT2, OAT3, OAT4, URAT (RST)] Rapid Communication. Gang Xu, Vibha Bhatnagar, Gen Wen, Bruce A. Hamilton, Satish A. Eraly, and Sanjay K. Nigam Hereditary amyloidosis in early childhood associated with a novel insertion-deletion (indel) in the fibrinogen Aa chain gene. Hee Gyung Kang, Alison Bybee, Il Soo Ha, Moon Soo Park, Janet A. Gilbertson, Hae Il Cheong, Yong Choi, and Philip N. Hawkins ......0.00.0000 ..ce .ee0 6ene. ce e ns 1994 The C-terminal tail of aquaporin-2 determines apical trafficking. Michio Kuwahara, Tomoki Asai, Yoshio Terada, and Sei Sasaki 1999 A role for microfilament-based contraction in branching morphogenesis of the ureteric bud. Lydia Micnael, Devas E. Swweriey, ae Fame A DOIG IOS aos sc ices ck sna che wan banda vasvesinea eden 2010 Interaction between Rf-/ and Rf-4 quantitative trait loci increases susceptibility to renal damage in double congenic rats. Sabine J. Van Dijk, Patricia A.C. Specht, Michelle M. Lutz, Jozef Lazar, Howard J. Jacob, and Abraham P. Provoost HORMONES - CYTOKINES - SIGNALING Lipoxin Ag inhibits TNF-a—induced production of interleukins and proliferation of rat mesangial cells. Sheng-Hua Wu, Chao Lu, Ling Dong, Guo-Ping Zhou, Zha-Guang He, and Zi-Qing Chen Stimulation of soluble guanylate cyclase slows progression in anti-thy1-induced chronic glomeruloscle- rosis. Yingrui Wang, Stephanie Kramer, Tanja Loof, Sebastian Martini, Susanne Kron, Hiroshi Kawachi, Fuijo Shimizu, Hans-H. Neumayer, and Harm Peters Chemokine response to febrile urinary tract infection. Gisela Otto, Marie Burdick, Robert Strieter, and Gabriela Godaly NF-«B-dependent increase in intrarenal angiotensin II induced by proteinuria. Osamu Takase, Takeshi Marumo, Naohiko Imai, Junichi Hirahashi, Atsushi Takayanagi, Keiichi Hishikawa, Matsuhiko Hayashi, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Toshiro Fujita, and Takao Saruta The inhibition of human mesangial cell proliferation by S-trans, trans-farnesylthiosalicylic acid. Arif Khwaja, Claire C. Sharpe, Mazhar Noor, Yoel Kloog, and Bruce M. Hendry Differential distribution of the vasopressin V2 receptor along the rat nephron during renal ontogeny and maturation. José M. Sarmiento, Pamela Ehrenfeld, Carolina C. Afiazco, Carlos E. Reyes, Silvia Troncoso, Carlos D. Figueroa, Werner Mii-Esterl, and Carlos B. Gonzalez Oxalate stimulates IL-6 production in HK-2 cells, a line of human renal proximal tubular epithelial cells. Mei Yi Huang, Lakshmi S. Chaturvedi, Sweaty Koul, and Hari K. Koul Epidermal growth factor potentiates renal cell death in hydronephrotic neonatal mice, but cell survival in rats. Susan C. Kiley, Barbara A. Thornhill, Brian C. Belyea, Karen Neale, Michael S. Forbes, Noreen C. Luetteke, David C. Lee, and Robert L. Chevalier Dietary arginine supplementation attenuates renal damage after relief of unilateral ureteral obstruc- tion in rats. Keiichi Ito, Jie Chen, Surya V. Seshan, Jonathan J. Khodadadian, Rachel Gallagher, Maher El Chaar, E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr., Dix P. Poppas, and Diane Felsen (see Editorial by Frékizr, p. 894) The selective PPARy antagonist GW9662 reverses the protection of LPS in a model of renal ischemia- reperfusion. Massimo Collino, Nimesh S.A. Patel, Kevin M. Lawrence, Marika Collin, David S. Latchman, Muhammad M. Yaqoob, and Christoph Thiemermann Human anti-neutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies to proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA) bind to neutrophils. André P. Van Rossum, Ymke M. van der Geld, Pieter C. Limburg, and Cees G.M. Kallenberg MAPK/AP-1-dependent regulation of PAI-1 gene expression by TGF-B in rat mesangial cells. Baoliang Guo, Ken Inoki, Motohide Isono, Hiroyuki Mori, Keizo Kanasaki, Toshiro Sugimoto, Satoshi Akiba, Takashi Sato, Baofeng Yang, Ryuichi Kikkawa, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Masakazu Haneda, and Daisuke Koya High glucose transactivates the EGF receptor and up-regulates serum glucocorticoid kinase in the proximal tubule. Sonia Saad, Veronica A. Stevens, Lesley Wassef, Philip Poronnik, Darren J. Kelly, Richard E. Gilbert, and Carol A. Pollock Structure of non-(1-84) PTH fragments secreted by parathyroid glands in primary and secondary hyper- parathyroidism. Pierre D’Amour, Jean-Hugues Brossard, Louise Rousseau, Loan Nguyen- Yamamoto, Edgard Nassif, Claude Lazure, Dany Gauthier, Jeffrey R. Lavigne, and Richard J. Zahradnik Uroguanylin and guanylin regulate transport of mouse cortical collecting duct independent of guany- late cyclase C. Aleksandra Sindié, Ana Velic, Candan Basoglu, Jochen R. Hirsch, Bayram Edemir, Michaela Kuhn, and Eberhard Schlatter 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 inhibits renal interstitial myofibroblast activation by inducing hepato- cyte growth factor expression. Yingjian Li, Bradley C. Spataro, Junwei Yang, Chunsun Dai, and Youhua Liu 1500 Induction of Zf9 in the kidney following early ischemia/reperfusion. Ridwan Tarabishi, Kamyar Zahedi, Jaya Mishra, Qing Ma, Caitlin Kelly, Kathy Tehrani, and Prasad Devarajan 1511 Growth hormone promotes glomerular lipid accumulation in bGH mice. Marcos O. Machado, Rosario D.C. Hirata, Donald F: Sellitti, Roberto lotti, Alejandro lotti, Ana M. Cusumano, Gavin P. Riordan, Karen T. Coschigano, John J. Kopchick, Irina Zuhl, Nga Nguyen, Mario H. Hirata, and Sonia Q. Doi Disturbed Ca*-signaling by chloroacetaldehyde: A possible cause for chronic ifosfamide nephrotox- icity. Andreas Benesic, Gerald Schwerdt, Sigrid Mildenberger, Ruth Freudinger, Nader Gordjani, and Michael Gekle Curcumin blocks fibrosis in anti-Thy | glomerulonephritis through up-regulation of heme oxygenase 1. Jens Gaedeke, Nancy A. Noble, and Wayne A. Border Glucocorticoids protect and enhance recovery of cultured murine podocytes via actin filament sta- bilization. Richard F Ransom, Nancy G. Lam, Mark A. Hallett, Simon J. Atkinson, and William E. Smoyer Aluminum posttranscriptional regulation of parathyroid hormone synthesis: A role for the calcium- sensing receptor. Ignacio Gonzdlez-Sudrez, Daniel Alvarez-Hernandez, Natalia Carrillo-Lépez, Manuel Naves-Diaz, José Luis Fernandez-Martin, and Jorge B. Cannata-Andia Transcriptional response in the unaffected kidney after contralateral hydronephrosis or nephrectomy. Peter Hauser, Alexander Kainz, Paul Perco, Helga Bergmeister, Christa Mitterbauer, Christoph Schwarz, Heinz M. Regele, Bernd Mayer, Timothy W. Meyer, and Rainer Oberbauer (see Editorial by Fine Cyclosporine A and NAC on the inducible nitric oxide synthase expression and nitric oxide synthesis in rat renal artery cultured cells. Camila Lessio, Fabio de Assungao Silva, Maria Aparecida Gloria, Ana Beatriz Galhardi Di Tommaso, Margaret Gori Mouro, Giovana Seno Di Marco, Nestor Schor, and Elisa Mieko Suemitsu Higa CELL BIOLOGY —- IMMUNOLOGY - PATHOLOGY Hyaluronan is apically secreted and expressed by proliferating or regenerating renal tubular cells. Marino Asselman, Anja Verhulst, Eddy S. Van Ballegooijen, Chris H. Bangma, Carl F. Verkoelen, and Marc E. De Broe Citrullination preferentially proceeds in glomerular Bowman’s capsule and increases in obstruc- tive nephropathy. Dongyun Feng, Toshiyuki Imasawa, Tadasuke Nagano, Masaru Kikkawa, Kaori Takayanagi, Takako Ohsawa, Kyoichi Akiyama, Akihito Ishigami, Tosifusa Toda, Tetsuya Mitarai, Takeo Machida, and Naoki Maruyama The antifibrotic effects of relaxin in human renal fibroblasts are mediated in part by inhibition of the Smad2 pathway. Malte H.J. Heeg, Michael J. Koziolek, Radovan Vasko, Liliana Schaefer, Kumar Sharma, Gerhard A. Miiller, and Frank Strutz (see Editorial by Gaedeke and Peters, p. 405) Shedding of endothelial protein C receptor contributes to vasculopathy and renal injury in lupus: In vivo and in vitro evidence. Carlos A. Sesin, Xiaoming Yin, Charles T: Esmon, Jill P. Buyon, and Robert M. Clancy (see Editorial by Leibovich, p. 407) Kidneys with heavy proteinuria show fibrosis, inflammation, and oxidative stress, but no tubular phe- notypic change. Arvi-Matti Kuusniemi, Risto Lapatto, Christer Holmberg, Riitta Karikoski, Juhani Rapola, and Hannu Jalanko ATRA induces podocyte differentiation and alters nephrin and podocin expression in vitro and in vivo. Michael R. Vaughan, Jeffrey W. Pippin, Sian V. Griffin, Ron Krofft, Margaret Fleet, Leah Haseley, and Stuart J. Shankland Apatite plaque particles in inner medulla of kidneys of calcium oxalate stone formers: Osteopontin localization. Andrew P. Evan, Fredric L. Coe, Susan R. Rittling, Sharon M. Bledsoe, Youzhi Shao, James E. Lingeman, and Elaine M. Worcester Renal expression of SIBLING proteins and their partner matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Kalu U.E. Ogbureke and Larry W. Fisher Aberrantly glycosylated serum IgAl1 are closely associated with pathologic phenotypes of IgA nephropathy. Li-Xia Xu and Ming-Hui Zhao Role of Fat! in cell-cell contact formation of podocytes in puromycin aminonucleoside nephrosis and neonatal kidney. Fishin Yaoita, Hidetake Kurihara, Yutaka Yoshida, Tsutomu Inoue, Asako Matsuki, Tatsuo Sakai, and Tadashi Yamamoto Gas6 induces Akt/mTOR-mediated mesangial hypertrophy in diabetic nephropathy. Kojiro Nagai, Takeshi Matsubara, Akira Mima, Eriko Sumi, Hiroshi Kanamori, Noriyuki lehara, Atsushi Fukatsu, Motoko Yanagita, Toru Nakano, Yoshikazu Ishimoto, Toru Kita, Toshio Doi, and Hidenori Arai Increased levels of circulating endothelial cells in chronic periaortitis as a marker of active disease. Gabriella Moroni, Nicoletta Del Papa, Lorenza Mazzeo Moronetti, Claudio Vitali, Wanda Maglione, Denise P. Comina, Francesca Urgnani, Sandro Sandri, Claudio Ponticelli, and Agostino Cortelezzi .. Synergistic effect of hypoxia and TNF-a on production of PAI-1 in human proximal renal tubular cells. Xuan Li, Hideki Kimura, Kiichi Hirota, Kenji Kasuno, Kunio Torii, Toshiharu Okada, Hisanori Kurooka, Yoshifumi Yokota, and Haruyoshi Yoshida CD80 and CD86 costimulatory molecules regulate crescentic glomerulonephritis by different mecha- nisms. Dragana Odobasic, A. Richard Kitching, Peter G. Tipping, and Stephen R. Holdsworth Mesangial accumulation of GA-pyridine, a novel glycolaldehyde-derived AGE, in human renal dis- ease. Wendela L. Greven, Femke Waanders, Ryoji Nagai, Marius C. van den Heuvel, Gerjan Navis, and Harry van Goor Protease activity of plasma hemopexin. Winston W. Bakker, Theo Borghuis, Martin C. Harmsen, Anke van den Berg, Ido P. Kema, Klary E. Niezen, and Jola J. Kapojos MCP-1 is up-regulated in unstressed and stressed HO-1 knockout mice: Pathophysiologic correlates. Siobhan T. Pittock, Suzanne M. Norby, Joseph P. Grande, Anthony J. Croatt, Gary D. Bren, Andrew D. Badley, Noel M. Caplice, Matthew D. Griffin, and Karl A. Nath (see Editorial by Kanwar, p. 896) Catalase deficiency renders remnant kidneys more susceptible to oxidant tissue injury and renal fibrosis in mice. Mizuho Kobayashi, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Da-Hong Wang, Naomi Toda, Yohei Maeshima, Yasushi Yamasaki, Noriyoshi Masuoka, Masao Yamada, Shohei Kira, and Hirofumi Makino 1018 Urothelial differentiation in chronically urine-deprived bladders of patients with end-stage renal dis- ease. Jens Stahlschmidt, Claire L. Varley, Giles Toogood, Peter J. Selby, and Jennifer Southgate ....... 1032 Mycophenolate mofetil ameliorates nephropathy in the obese Zucker rat. Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe, Yasmir Quiroz, Ashkan Shahkarami, Zhen Li, and Nosratola D. Vaziri 1041 Expression of HIV-1 genes in podocytes alone can lead to the full spectrum of HIV-1—associated nephropathy. Jianyong Zhong, Yigin Zuo, Ji Ma, Agnes B. Fogo, Paul Jolicoeur, lekuni Ichikawa, and Taiji Matsusaka Characterization of the T-cell epitope that causes anti-GBM glomerulonephritis. Julie Robertson, Jean Wu, Jon Arends, William Glass II, Scott Southwood, Alessandro Sette, and Ya-Huan Lou Scanning ion conductance microscopy reveals how a functional renal epithelial monolayer maintains its integrity. Yanjun Zhang, Julia Gorelik, Daniel Sanchez, Andrew Shevchuk, Max Lab, Igor Vodyanoy, David Klenerman, Christopher Edwards, and Yuri Korchev Fibroblast-specific protein | is a specific prognostic marker for renal survival in patients with IgAN. Yoshiharu Nishitani, Masayuki Iwano, Yukinari Yamaguchi, Koji Harada, Kimihiko Nakatani, Yasuhiro Akai, Toshihiko Nishino, Hideo Shiiki, Masao Kanauchi, Yoshihiko Saito, and Eric G. Neilson (see Editorial by Bruneval, p. 1366) 1078 Adrenomedullin reduces mesangial cell number and glomerular inflammation in experimental mesan- gioproliferative glomerulonephritis. Christian Plank, Andrea Hartner, Bernd Klanke, Bettina Geissler, Markus Porst, Kerstin Amann, Karl F. Hilgers, Wolfgang Rascher, and Jorg Détsch 1086 Antigen presentation by dendritic cells in renal lymph nodes is linked to systemic and local injury to the kidney. Xiangyang Dong, Sundararaman Swaminathan, Lori A. Bachman, Anthony J. Croatt, Karl A. Nath, and Matthew D. Griffin Podocyte involvement in human immune crescentic glomerulonephritis. Jean Bariéty, Patrick Bruneval, Alain Meyrier, Chantal Mandet, Gary Hill, and Christian Jacquot Is the nephritogenic antigen in post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis pyrogenic exotoxin B (SPE B) or GAPDH? Stephen R. Batsford, Sergio Mezzano, Michael Mihatsch, Emile Schiltz, and Bernardo Rodriguez-lturbe Immunohistochemical localization of apolipoprotein A-IV in human kidney tissue. Marina Haiman, Willi Salvenmoser, Karl Scheiber, Arno Lingenhel, Christian Rudolph, Gerd Schmitz, Florian Kronenberg, and Hans Dieplinger Combined expression of Al and A20 achieves optimal protection of renal proximal tubular epithelial cells. Uta Kunter, Soizic Daniel, Maria B. Arvelo, Jean Choi, Tala Shukri, Virendra I. Patel, Christopher R. Longo, Salvatore T. Scali, Gautam Shrikhande, Eduardo Rocha, Eva Czismadia, Christina Mottley, Shane T. Grey, Jiirgen Floege, and Christiane Ferran Parenteral iron treatment induces MCP-1 accumulation in plasma, normal kidneys, and in experimental nephropathy. Richard A. Zager Crystals cause acute necrotic cell death in renal proximal tubule cells, but not in collecting tubule cells. Marieke S.J. Schepers, Eddy S. van Ballegooijen, Chris H. Bangma, and Carl F. Verkoelen Evidence linking glycated albumin to altered glomerular nephrin and VEGF expression, proteinuria, and diabetic nephropathy. Margo P. Cohen, Sheldon Chen, Fuad N. Ziyadeh, Elizabeth Shea, Elizabeth A. Hud, Gregory T. Lautenslager, and Clyde W. Shearman The parietal epithelial cell is crucially involved in human idiopathic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Henry Dijkman, Bart Smeets, Jeroen van der Laak, Eric Steenbergen, and Jack Wetzels (see Editorial by Schwartz, p. 1894) CREB mediates ERK-induced survival of mouse renal tubular cells after oxidant stress. /stvan Arany, Judit K. Megyesi, Jane E.B. Reusch, and Robert L. Safirstein p27*'P! knockout mice are protected from diabetic nephropathy: Evidence for p27*'?! hapletype insufficiency. Gunter Wolf, Anja Schanze, Rolf A.K. Stahl, Stuart J. Shankland, and Kerstin Amann (see Editorial by Qi and Breyer, p. 1896) Matrix metalloproteinases and mesangial remodeling in light chain-related glomerular damage. John Keeling and Guillermo A. Herrera 1590 Dendritic cells of IgA nephropathy patients have an impaired capacity to induce IgA production in naive B cells. Jan-Willem Eijgenraam, Andrea M. Woltman, Sylvia W.A. Kamerling, Francine Briere, Johan W. de Fijter, Mohamed R. Daha, and Cees van Kooten Administered mesenchymal stem cells enhance recovery of ischemia/reperfusion-induced acute renal failure in rats. Claudia Lange, Florian Togel, Harald Ittrich, Frederic Clayton, Claus Nolte-Ernsting, Axel R. Zander, and Christof Westenfelder The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 is required for TGF-f1-induced podocyte apoptosis. Takehiko Wada, Jeffrey W. Pippin, Yoshio Terada, and Stuart J. Shankland Characterization of glycosaminoglycans in tubular epithelial cells: Calcium oxalate and oxalate ions effects Fernanda T. Borges, Yara M. Michelacci, Jair A.K. Aguiar, Maria A. Dalboni, Andrezza S. Garofalo, and Nestor Schor Preconditioning of the distal tubular epithelium of the human kidney precedes nephrocalcinosis. Anja Verhulst, Marino Asselman, Stephanie De Naeyer, Benjamin A. Vervaet, Michael Mengel, Wilfried Gwinner, Patrick C. D’Haese, Carl F. Verkoelen, and Marc E. De Broe VEGF regulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in glomerular endothelial cells. Denis Feliers, Xiaoyan Chen, Nese Akis, Goutam Ghosh Choudhury, Michael Madaio, and Balakuntalam S. Kasinath Oxalate is toxic to renal tubular cells only at supraphysiologic concentrations. Marieke S.J. Schepers, Eddy S. van Ballegooijen, Chris H. Bangma, and Carl F. Verkoelen Renal-specific oxidoreductase biphasic expression under high glucose ambience during fetal versus neonatal development. Yashpal S. Kanwar, Shigeru Akagi, Baibaswata Nayak, Lin Sun, Jun Wada, Ping Xie, Arun Thakur, Sumant S. Chugh, and Farhad R. Danesh Inflammation and caspase activation in long-term renal ischemia/reperfusion injury and immunosup- pression in rats. Bin Yang, Sunjay Jain, Izabella Z.A. Pawluczyk, Shehla Imtiaz, Lee Bowley, Shairbanu Y. Ashra, and Michael L. Nicholson 2050 Activation of mesangial cells by platelets in systemic lupus erythematosus via a CD154-dependent induction of CD40. 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