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ReviewPediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2014

Remnant nephron physiology and the progression of chronic kidney disease.

H William Schnaper

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Review in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. An evidence-based systematic review of the off-label uses of lisinopril.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

H William SchnaperDivision of Kidney Diseases, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, schnaper@northwestern.edu.

Funding

Signaling Pathways in Renal FibrogenesisR01DK049362 · NIDDK · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SCHNAPER, H WILLIAM · 1994 to 2014
$4.0M
Adaptor Molecules in TGF-beta SignalingR01DK075663 · NIDDK · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SCHNAPER, H WILLIAM · 2008 to 2012
$1.5M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK049362NIDDK NIH HHS R01-DK049362NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK075663NIDDK NIH HHS R01-DK075663
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In chronic kidney disease, ongoing failure of individual nephrons leads to the progressive loss of renal function. This process results in part from a cellular and molecular response to injury that represents an attempt to maintain homeostasis but instead initiates a program that damages the nephron. As nephrons are lost, compensation by the remaining nephrons exacerbates glomerular pathophysiology. The delivery of excessive amounts of biologically active molecules to the distal nephron and tubulointerstitium generates inflammation and cellular dedifferentiation. Energy requirements of hyperfunctioning nephrons exceed the metabolic substrate available to the renal tubule, and inadequacy of the local vascular supply promotes hypoxia/ischemia and consequent acidosis and reactive oxygen species generation. In this way, mechanisms activated to maintain biological balance ultimately lead to demise of the nephron.

Indexed as

Disease ProgressionHumansNephronsRenal Insufficiency, Chronic

Identifiers

PMID23715783
PMCPMC3796124

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