Dear fellow researchers,Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of Kidney Cancer and VHL (JKCVHL).JKCVHL is an open access journal created to fill the vacuum for a specialized journal to disseminate information on the advances in kidney cancer and VHL ...
Journal of Kidney Cancer and VHL
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Phenotype standardization for drug-induced kidney disease. [PDF]
Drug-induced kidney disease is a frequent cause of renal dysfunction; however, there are no standards to identify and characterize the spectrum of these disorders.
Awdishu, Linda +8 more
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Ochratoxin A: In Utero Exposure in Mice Induces Adducts in Testicular DNA [PDF]
Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a nephrotoxin and carcinogen that is associated with Balkan endemic nephropathy and urinary tract tumors. OTA crosses the placenta and causes adducts in the liver and kidney DNA of newborns.
Jamie E. Jennings-Gee +52 more
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Kidney age, not kidney disease [PDF]
KEY POINTS Although a variety of conditions and syndromes may affect the kidneys over either chronic or acute time frames, the term “chronic kidney disease” (CKD) is used to describe a decrease in the filtration ability of the glomerular capillaries in the kidney.
Stevens, Richard J +10 more
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Seasonal mortality trends for hospitalised patients with acute kidney injury across England
Background Incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) is known to peak in winter months. This is likely influenced by seasonality of commonly associated acute illnesses.
Esther Wong +6 more
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Over 65,000 Americans are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year and nearly 13,000 die of this disease. Kidney cancer is not a single disease, it is made up of a number of different types of cancer, each with a different histology, a different clinical course, responding differently to therapy and caused by a different gene. Study of the thirteen genes
W Marston, Linehan, W Kimryn, Rathmell
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Combined liver-kidney transplantation and the effect of preformed lymphocytotoxic antibodies [PDF]
Thirty-eight sequentially placed liver and kidney allografts were evaluated with respect to patient and graft survival, and the influence of preformed lymphocytotoxic antibodies was analysed.
A.Jake Demetris +34 more
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Time, timing, talking and training : findings from an exploratory action research study to improve quality of end of life care for minority ethnic kidney patients [PDF]
Background. With an ageing and increasingly diverse population at risk from rising levels of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, including kidney complications, there is a need to provide quality care at all stages in the care pathway including
Brown, Edwina +9 more
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Anion transporter: highly cell-type-specific expression of distinct polypeptides and transcripts in erythroid and nonerythroid cells [PDF]
Affinity-purified antibodies and cDNA probes specific for the chicken erythrocyte anion transporter (also referred to as band 3) have been used to demonstrate that this protein is expressed in a highly cell- type-specific manner in the avian kidney ...
Cox, John V. +2 more
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Prescription characteristics of phosphate binders in a high pill burden for hemodialysis patients
Background Dialysis patients have to take many oral drugs, causing a high pill burden. Phosphate binders (PBs) account for a large proportion of daily pill burden; however, the relationship between patient background and prescription status of PBs is not
Nobuo Nagano +8 more
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