Ankle-Brachial Blood Pressure Index Predicts All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients

Kumeo Ono, Akiyasu Tsuchida, Hironobu Kawai, +6

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

HypertensionHigh AbpiCardiometabolic RiskDialysis TherapyHemodialysis Patients +16

Case of propylthiouracil-induced vasculitis associated with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA); review of literature.

T Kitahara, Keiju Hiromura, Akira Maezawa, +6

PubMed

39-Year-old Japanese WomanVasculitisRenal PathologyImmunologyPathology +19

Sulfite is released by human neutrophils in response to stimulation with lipopolysaccharide

Hideki Mitsuhashi, Yoshihisa Nojima, Takaharu Tanaka, +4

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Corticosteroid therapy in patients with IgA nephropathy and impaired renal function.

S Tamura, Kenji Ueki, Hiroshi Ideura, +7

PubMed

Four cases of anti-myeloperoxidase antibody-related rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis during the course of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Keiju Hiromura, Yoshihisa Nojima, T Kitahara, +5

PubMed

Glomerular DiseaseVasculitisImmunologyPathologyGlomerulonephritis +15

Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-induced IgG-IgM rheumatoid factor (RF) complex may be the main causal factor for cold-dependent activation of complement in patients with rheumatic disease

Guangfen Wei, S Yano, Takashi Kuroiwa, +2

Clinical & Experimental Immunology

Therapeutic Effects of Ulinastatin on Experimental Crescentic Glomerulonephritis in Rats

Ryuichi Koizumi, Hideo Kanai, Akira Maezawa, +3

˜The œNephron journals/Nephron journals

Glomerular DiseaseImmunologyTherapeutic EffectsUlinastatin TreatmentRat Model +18

Thiopurine Methyltransferase Genotype and Phenotype Status in Japanese Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Yuko Okada, Katsunori Nakamura, Tomoko Kodama, +8

Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin

Autoimmune DiseaseSystemic Lupus ErythematosusSystemic Lupus Erythematosus TreatmentLupusGenetics +13

FK506, a novel immunosuppressive agent, induces antigen-specific immunotolerance in active Heymann's nephritis and in the autologous phase of Masugi nephritis

Yasuhiro Okubo, Yoshito Tsukada, Akira Maezawa, +3

Clinical & Experimental Immunology

Glomerular DiseaseImmunologyRenal InflammationPathologyImmunotherapy +23

Sulfite induces adherence of polymorphonuclear neutrophils to immobilized fibrinogen through activation of Mac-1 β2-integrin (CD11b/CD18)

Tetsuya Shigehara, Hideki Mitsuhashi, Fumie Ota, +6

Life Sciences

InflammationSulfite Induces AdherenceGranulocyteCell AdhesionImmunology +6