Annals ofNephrology

Volume: 6 - Number: 54 - January 15, 2008

Outstanding

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

Endoglin regulates renal ischaemia–reperfusion injury

Salt—friend or foe?

Nephrotoxicity of ciclosporin A: short-term gain, long-term pain?

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?

Editorial commentaries

Costs and benefits of improving renal failure treatment—where do we go?

Salt—friend or foe?

Intestinal bacterial microflora—a potential source of chronic inflammation in patients with chronic kidney disease

Nephrotoxicity of ciclosporin A: short-term gain, long-term pain?

Is liver analysis still required for the diagnosis of primary hyperoxaluria type 2?

Editorial reviews

Phosphate binders and management of hyperphosphataemia in end-stage renal disease

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

Images in nephrology

Back pain in chronic renal failure

A patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney and liver disease presenting with urinary tract infection...‘Unable to see the wood for the trees’

Special features

NDT contributes to a collection of 100 seminal papers published by Oxford University Press

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