Annals ofNephrology

Volume: 5 - Number: 52 - November 15, 2007

Outstanding

Fetuin-A and kidney function in persons with coronary artery disease—data from the heart and soul study

Are prediction equations for glomerular filtration rate useful for the long-term monitoring of type 2 diabetic patients?

Low birth weight does not increase the risk of nephropathy in Finnish type 1 diabetic patients

Patients receiving maintenance dialysis have more severe functionally significant skeletal muscle wasting than patients with dialysis-independent chronic kidney disease

Original articles: Clinical nephrology

Hydrochlorothiazide in CLDN16 mutation

Decline in kidney function before and after nephrology referral and the effect on survival in moderate to advanced chronic kidney disease

Fetuin-A and kidney function in persons with coronary artery disease—data from the heart and soul study

Are prediction equations for glomerular filtration rate useful for the long-term monitoring of type 2 diabetic patients?

Low birth weight does not increase the risk of nephropathy in Finnish type 1 diabetic patients

Renal glucose excretion as a function of blood glucose concentration in subjects with type 2 diabetes—results of a hyperglycaemic glucose clamp study

Polynocturia in chronic kidney disease is related to natriuresis rather than to water diuresis

Geographic, ethnic, age-related and temporal variation in the incidence of end-stage renal disease in Europe, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region, 1998–2003

Original articles: Dialysis and transplantation

Mortality risk factors in chronic haemodialysis patients with infective endocarditis

Relation of haemofilter type to venous catheter resistance is crucial for filtration performance and haemocompatibility in CVVH—an in vitro study

Racial disparities in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease among incident end-stage renal disease patients

Patients receiving maintenance dialysis have more severe functionally significant skeletal muscle wasting than patients with dialysis-independent chronic kidney disease

Evolution of bone and plasma concentration of lanthanum in dialysis patients before, during 1 year of treatment with lanthanum carbonate and after 2 years of follow-up

Original articles: Experimental nephrology

Haploinsufficiency of Pkd2 is associated with increased tubular cell proliferation and interstitial fibrosis in two murine Pkd2 models

Protective role of L-2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid in cisplatin-induced renal injury

Rosiglitazone ameliorates cisplatin-induced renal injury in mice

Endoglin regulates renal ischaemia–reperfusion injury

Translational nephrology

Aquaporin-1—a water channel on the move

Haematopoietic stem cells—role of calcium-sensing receptor in bone marrow homing

Anti-RANKL therapy—implications for the bone-vascular-axis in CKD? Denosumab in post-menopausal women with low bone mineral density