Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

I. Editorial Features

Editorial Comments:

Richard Poulsom, Evangelia I. Prodromidi, Charles D. Pusey, and H. Terence Cook

Cell therapy for renal regeneration—time for some joined-up thinking?
NDT Advance Access published on October 5, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3349-3353; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl490 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Igor Nikolov, Nobuhiko Joki, Tilman Drüeke, and Ziad Massy

Beyond phosphate—role of uraemic toxins in cardiovascular calcification
NDT Advance Access published on September 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3354-3357; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl446 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesco Locatelli, Claudio Pozzi, and Simeone Andrulli

IgA nephritis: ACE inhibitors, steroids, both or neither?
NDT Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3357-3361; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl508 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Talat Alp Ikizler and Jonathan Himmelfarb

Trials and trade-offs in haemodialysis vascular access monitoring
NDT Advance Access published on September 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3362-3363; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl562 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katrien Blanckaert and An S. De Vriese

Current recommendations for diagnosis and management of polyoma BK virus nephropathy in renal transplant recipients
NDT Advance Access published on September 23, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3364-3367; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl404 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Translational Nephrology:

Frank Strutz and Gerhard A. Müller

Renal fibrosis and the origin of the renal fibroblast
NDT Advance Access published on August 3, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3368-3370; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl199 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Duska Dragun

Complement-ary matching: a definite maybe
NDT Advance Access published on September 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3371-3373; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl480 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mohamed R. Daha, Cees van Kooten, and Anja Roos

Compliments from complement: a fourth pathway of complement activation?
NDT Advance Access published on September 2, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3374-3376; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl515 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Experimental Nephrology:

Christudas Morais, Betty Pat, Glenda Gobe, David W. Johnson, and Helen Healy

Pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate exerts anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects in renal cell carcinoma cell lines
NDT Advance Access published on September 23, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3377-3388; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl543 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christoph Langenberg, Li Wan, Sean M. Bagshaw, Moritoki Egi, Clive N. May, and Rinaldo Bellomo

Urinary biochemistry in experimental septic acute renal failure
NDT Advance Access published on September 23, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3389-3397; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl541 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Reynolds, Amina Albouainain, Mark Anthony Duda, David John Evans, and Charles Dickson Pusey

Strain susceptibility to active induction and passive transfer of experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis in the rat
NDT Advance Access published on September 23, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3398-3408; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl523 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Idit Feenberg Schwartz, Tamara Chernichovsky, David Hagin, Meirav Ingbir, Ran Reshef, Gil Chernin, Yoram Levo, and Doron Schwartz

Differential regulation of L-arginine transporters (cationic amino acid transporter-1 and -2) by peroxynitrite in rat mesangial cells
NDT Advance Access published on September 23, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3409-3414; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl522 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Clinical Nephrology:

Dagan Jenkins, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Sue Malcolm, Jennifer Allison, Rose de Bruyn, Sarah Flanagan, David F. M. Thomas, Rachel A. Belk, Sally A. Feather, Coralie Bingham, Jennifer Southgate, and Adrian S. Woolf

Mutation analyses of Uroplakin II in children with renal tract malformations
NDT Advance Access published on September 29, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3415-3421; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl465 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vasileios Giapros, Aikaterini Drougia, Efthalia Hotoura, Frederica Papadopoulou, Maria Argyropoulou, and Styliani Andronikou

Kidney growth in small-for-gestational-age infants: evidence of early accelerated renal growth
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3422-3427; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl466 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Juan F. Navarro, Carmen Mora, Mercedes Muros, and Javier García

Urinary tumour necrosis factor- excretion independently correlates with clinical markers of glomerular and tubulointerstitial injury in type 2 diabetic patients
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3428-3434; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl469 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neal X. Chen, Danxia Duan, Kalisha D. O'Neill, and Sharon M. Moe

High glucose increases the expression of Cbfa1 and BMP-2 and enhances the calcification of vascular smooth muscle cells
NDT Advance Access published on September 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3435-3442; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl429 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lonneke M. Bevers, Ernst E. van Faassen, Thi Danh Vuong, Zhenmin Ni, Peter Boer, Hein A. Koomans, Branko Braam, Nosratola D. Vaziri, and Jaap A. Joles

Low albumin levels increase endothelial NO production and decrease vascular NO sensitivity
NDT Advance Access published on September 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3443-3449; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl443 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Beata Naumnik, Jacek Borawski, Lech Chyczewski, Krystyna Pawlak, and Michal Mysliwiec

Tissue factor and its inhibitor in human non-crescentic glomerulonephritis—immunostaining vs plasma and urinary levels
NDT Advance Access published on September 17, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3450-3457; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl365 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jose Iglesias, Deborah Hom, Maria Antoniotti, Sammy Ayoub, and Jerrold S. Levine

Predictors of worsening renal function in adult patients with congestive heart failure receiving recombinant human B-type brain natriuretic peptide (nesiritide)
NDT Advance Access published on July 28, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3458-3465; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl428 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yohei Ikezumi, Toshiaki Suzuki, Naofumi Imai, Mitsuhiro Ueno, Ichiei Narita, Hiroshi Kawachi, Fujio Shimizu, David J. Nikolic-Paterson, and Makoto Uchiyama

Histological differences in new-onset IgA nephropathy between children and adults
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3466-3474; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl455 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Haruhito Adam Uchida, Yoshio Nakamura, Masanobu Kaihara, Hisanao Norii, Yoshihisa Hanayama, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Yohei Maeshima, Yasushi Yamasaki, and Hirofumi Makino

Steroid pulse therapy impaired endothelial function while increasing plasma high molecule adiponectin concentration in patients with IgA nephropathy
NDT Advance Access published on September 2, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3475-3480; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl423 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jamie H. Macdonald, Samuele M. Marcora, Mahdi Jibani, Gareth Roberts, Mick John Kumwenda, Ruth Glover, Jeffrey Barron, and Andrew Bruce Lemmey

Bioelectrical impedance can be used to predict muscle mass and hence improve estimation of glomerular filtration rate in non-diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on September 5, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3481-3487; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl432 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jamie Hugo Macdonald, Samuele Maria Marcora, Mick John Kumwenda, Mahdi Jibani, Gareth Roberts, Ruth Glover, Jeffrey Barron, and Andrew Bruce Lemmey

The relationship between estimated glomerular filtration rate, demographic and anthropometric variables is mediated by muscle mass in non-diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3488-3494; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl430 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles: Dialysis and Transplantation:

Ronald L. Pisoni, Björn Wikström, Stacey J. Elder, Tadao Akizawa, Yashushi Asano, Marcia L. Keen, Rajiv Saran, David C. Mendelssohn, Eric W. Young, and Friedrich K. Port

Pruritus in haemodialysis patients: international results from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)
NDT Advance Access published on September 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3495-3505; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl461 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mehmet Ozkahya, Ercan Ok, Huseyin Toz, Gulay Asci, Soner Duman, Ali Basci, Timur Kose, and E. J. Dorhout Mees

Long-term survival rates in haemodialysis patients treated with strict volume control
NDT Advance Access published on September 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3506-3513; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl487 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edwin Wijnen, Nils Planken, Xavier Keuter, Jeroen P. Kooman, Jan H. M. Tordoir, Michiel W. de Haan, Karel M. L. Leunissen, and Frank van der Sande

Impact of a quality improvement programme based on vascular access flow monitoring on costs, access occlusion and access failure
NDT Advance Access published on August 18, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3514-3519; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl424 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claus Peter Schmitt, Barbara Nau, Christiane Brummer, Joachim Rosenkranz, and Franz Schaefer

Increased injection pain with darbepoetin- compared to epoetin-ß in paediatric dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3520-3524; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl479 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angeles Guerrero, Rafael Montes, José Muñoz-Terol, Alberto Gil-Peralta, Javier Toro, Macarena Naranjo, Paloma González-Pérez, Carmen Martín-Herrera, and Ana Ruiz-Fernández

Peripheral arterial disease in patients with stages IV and V chronic renal failure
NDT Advance Access published on August 29, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3525-3531; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl470 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giuliana Banche, Valeria Allizond, Franca Giacchino, Narcisa Mandras, Janira Roana, Franco Bonello, Paola Belardi, Vivian Tullio, Chiara Merlino, Nicola Carlone, and Anna Maria Cuffini

Effect of dialysis membrane biocompatibility on polymorphonuclear granulocyte activity in dialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3532-3538; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl415 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrzej Breborowicz, Krzysztof Pawlaczyk, Alicja Polubinska, Kinga Górna, Anders Wieslander, Ola Carlsson, Paul Tam, and George Wu

Effect of peritoneal dialysis on renal morphology and function
NDT Advance Access published on September 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3539-3544; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl402 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ashutosh Shukla, Zita Abreu, and Joanne M. Bargman

Streptococcal PD peritonitis—a 10-year review of one centre's experience
NDT Advance Access published on September 27, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3545-3549; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl407 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aisling E. Courtney, Peter T. McNamee, William E. Nelson, and Alexander Peter Maxwell

Does angiotensin blockade influence graft outcome in renal transplant recipients with IgA nephropathy?
NDT Advance Access published on September 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3550-3554; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl506 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yakup Ekmekci, Kenan Keven, Nejat Akar, Yonca Egin, Sule Sengul, Sim Kutlay, Sehsuvar Erturk, and Bulent Erbay

Thrombophilia and avascular necrosis of femoral head in kidney allograft recipients
NDT Advance Access published on September 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3555-3558; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl400 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, Anil Chandraker, M. Alan Brookhart, Reinhard Kramar, and Gere Sunder-Plassmann

A prospective study of anaemia and long-term outcomes in kidney transplant recipients
NDT Advance Access published on October 13, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3559-3566; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl457 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Yugo Shibagaki, Cynthia Tai, Alice Nayak, and Ihab Wahba

Intra-abdominal hypertension is an under-appreciated cause of acute renal failure
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3567-3570; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl496 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarat Kuppachi, Naqi Idris, Praveen N. Chander, and Jinil Yoo

Idiopathic nodular glomerulosclerosis in a non-diabetic hypertensive smoker—case report and review of literature
NDT Advance Access published on September 5, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3571-3575; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl422 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sumedha Kumar, Magdalena Adeva, Bernard F. King, Patrick S. Kamath, and Vicente E. Torres

Duodenal diverticulosis in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
NDT Advance Access published on September 2, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3576-3578; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl405 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fleur Lorton, Jérémy Raynot, Béatrice Letavernier, Arnaud Isapof, Hanna Debiec, Monique Pressac, Georges Deschênes, Marion Lenoir, Laurence Ross-Cerdan, Christine Grapin, Albert Bensman, and Tim Ulinski

Gross proteinuria post transplant in a child with nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type—mechanical vs immunological pathogenesis
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3579-3582; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl459 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martine C. M. Willems, L. W. Ernest van Heurn, Geert W. Schurink, Frank M. van der Sande, and Jan H. M. Tordoir

Renal allograft failure related to a lower extremity vascular access—a case report
NDT Advance Access published on September 5, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3583-3584; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl421 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rami Khoriaty, Zaher K. Otrock, Walid A. Medawar, Raja B. Khauli, and Ali Bazarbachi

A case of successful double sequential bone marrow and kidney transplantations in a patient with multiple myeloma
NDT Advance Access published on September 12, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3585-3588; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl403 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in Nephrology:

Samar M. Said, Adel M. Assaad, Jorge Cerda, and Samih H. Nasr

Light chain tubulopathy without Fanconi syndrome
NDT Advance Access published on September 17, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3589-3590; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl363 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chi-Keung Yeung, Kai-Chung Tse, Man-Fai Lam, Tak-Mao Chan, and Kar-Neng Lai

A renal transplant recipient with multiple facial nodules
NDT Advance Access published on September 23, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3591-3592; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl406 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sven Smets, Raymond Oyen, Willy Coosemans, and Dirk R. J. Kuypers

An unusual cause of ureteral obstruction in a renal allograft
NDT Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3593-3594; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl410 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simona Zerbi, Giorgio Cozzi, and Luciano A. Pedrini

Median nerve dysfunction from anastomotic calcified aneurysm of a Cimino–Brescia fistula in a long-term dialysis patient
NDT Advance Access published on August 18, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3595-3596; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl492 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Obituaries:

Dimitrios Oreopoulos

‘Vas-Peritonitis’—Stephen Vas: A Pioneer in CAPD Peritonitis, 1926–2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3597-3598; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl687 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Review:

C. Jacobs

Nephrology, Hypertension, Dialysis, Transplantation
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3599; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl682 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters and Replies:

Jacques Chanard, Sylvie Lavaud, and Philippe Rieu

Anticoagulation in haemodialysis
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3600-3601; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl517 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rolf Dario Frank and Juergen Floege

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on September 2, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3601; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl518 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colm C. Magee

Kidney biopsy in myeloma
NDT Advance Access published on October 13, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3601-3602; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl578 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marion Haubitz and Dietrich Peest

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on October 13, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3602; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl579 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alicja E. Grzegorzewska

Markers of bone turnover in haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on October 13, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3602-3603; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl576 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marta Albalate and Carlos Caramelo

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on October 13, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3604; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl577 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claudia Stöllberger and Josef Finsterer

Dermal and extra-dermal manifestations of gadolinium-triggered nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3604; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl592 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Grobner

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on October 11, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3604-3605; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl602 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tomasz Stompór, Marcin Krzanowski, Beata Kusnierz-Cabala, Marzena Dubiel, Malgorzata Stompór, Tomasz Grodzicki, and Wladyslaw Sulowicz

Pulse wave velocity and proteins regulating vascular calcification and bone mineralization in patients treated with peritoneal dialysis
NDT Advance Access published on September 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3605-3606; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl409 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. M. H. Hermans and J. P. Kooman

Reply
NDT Advance Access published on September 25, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3606; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl524 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Svetlana Karie, Vincent Launay-Vacher, Nicolas Janus, Hassane Izzedine, and Gilbert Deray

Pharmacokinetics and dosage adjustment of oseltamivir and zanamivir in patients with renal failure
NDT Advance Access published on June 24, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3606-3608; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl345 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vinícius S. Colares, Rodrigo B. Oliveira, and Regina C. R. M. Abdulkader

Nephrotoxicity of vancomycin in patients with normal serum creatinine
NDT Advance Access published on July 20, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3608; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl426 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masao Kanauchi, Kimiko Kanauchi, Kuniko Kimura, Tomoko Inoue, and Yoshihiko Saito

Associations of chronic kidney disease with the metabolic syndrome in non-diabetic elderly
NDT Advance Access published on July 22, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3608-3609; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl435 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Biagio Raffaele Di Iorio, Ernesto D'Avanzo, Carmine Piscopo, Pellegrino Grimaldi, Emanuele Cucciniello, Nicola Cillo, and Vincenzo Bellizzi

Progression of vascular calcification increases QT interval in haemodialysis patients
NDT Advance Access published on July 31, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3609-3610; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl417 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stanley Shaldon

Origin of home haemodialysis
NDT Advance Access published on July 28, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3610-3611; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl450 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ryunosuke Ohkawa, Nobuo Hisano, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Shigeo Okubo, Hiromitsu Yokota, and Yutaka Yatomi

Lysophospholipase D activity exists in the urine to catalyse the formation of lysophosphatidic acid
NDT Advance Access published on July 28, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3612-3613; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl437 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fatih Dede and Deniz Ayli

Efficient treatment of crescentric glomerulonephritis associated with hepatitis B virus with lamivudin in a case referred with acute renal failure
NDT Advance Access published on August 5, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3613-3614; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl445 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joachim H. Ix

Utility of cystatin C measurement—precision or secretion?
NDT Advance Access published on July 28, 2006
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3614; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl453 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcements:

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Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 21: 3615-3616; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl681 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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