...Hiroshi Kimura; Satomi Yoshida; Masato Takeuchi; Koji Kawakami Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a major public health burden. Potential inappropriate medications (PIMs) are common in patients with CKD. However, its impact on kidney outcomes has not been adequately elucidated...

... Resident macrophages Inflammation Acute renal failure CKD Acute kidney injury NIH The innate response to kidney injury is a complex reaction that involves the triggering of inflammatory pathways generally associated with pathogen infection. It is possible and likely that unchecked...

...David P. Basile; Jason A. Collett This review focuses on the potential mediation in the acute kidney injury (AKI)-to-chronic kidney disease (CKD) transition by lymphocytes. We highlight evidence that lymphocytes, particularly Th17 cells, modulate the severity of both acute injury and chronic kidney...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Nephrectomy Progression CKD Renal survival Acknowledgement to Reviewers The Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors of Nephron extend their gratitude and appreciation to the following reviewers whose comments and criticisms have...

... Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI); Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD); revised Lund-Malmö (LM-rev); Berlin Initiative Study 1 (BIS1) and Cockcroft-Gault/body surface area (CG/BSA) equations. Mortality and comorbidity were investigated in women with chronic kidney disease (CKD...

...Wei Ling Lau; Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh; Nosratola D. Vaziri Chronic inflammation is a non-traditional risk factor for cardiovascular mortality in the chronic kidney disease (CKD) population. In recent years, the gastrointestinal tract has emerged as a major instigator of systemic inflammation in CKD...

... diabetes, cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although AGEs were originally thought to form only endogenously, primarily as the result of the hyperglycemia of diabetes, it is now clear that exogenous AGEs, specially incorporated in foods, are an important contributor to the body pool...