TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 74, Issue 1 (July (1) 2008)

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In this Issue

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Nephrologists Sans Frontières

Salt and water: a brief natural history

Pedram Fatehi

Kidney Int 74: 3-4; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.239

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Commentaries

Macrophages and dendritic cells: what is the difference?

D Ferenbach and J Hughes

Kidney Int 74: 5-7; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.189

See also: Original Article by Segerer et al.

Setting the stage for acute-on-chronic kidney injury

J W Dear and P S T Yuen

Kidney Int 74: 7-9; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.126

See also: Original Article by Hsu et al.

HOming in on arteriovenous fistula survival

W Durante and C-C Lin

Kidney Int 74: 9-11; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.127

See also: Original Article by Juncos et al.
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Journal Club

Journal Club FREE

Kidney Int 74: 12-13; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.240

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Mini Review

Xenotransplantation: Where are we in 2008?

B Sprangers, M Waer and A D Billiau

Kidney Int 74: 14-21; advance online publication, April 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.135

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Review

Proteinuria in diabetic kidney disease: A mechanistic viewpoint

J A Jefferson, S J Shankland and R H Pichler

Kidney Int 74: 22-36; advance online publication, April 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.128

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Original Articles

Basic Research

Compartment specific expression of dendritic cell markers in human glomerulonephritis

S Segerer, F Heller, M T Lindenmeyer, H Schmid, C D Cohen, D Draganovici, J Mandelbaum, P J Nelson, H-J Gröne, E F Gröne, A-M Figel, E Nössner and D Schlöndorff

Kidney Int 74: 37-46; advance online publication, March 26, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.99

See also: Commentary by Ferenbach & Hughes
Genetic deficiency of heme oxygenase-1 impairs functionality and form of an arteriovenous fistula in the mouse

J P Juncos, M J Tracz, A J Croatt, J P Grande, A W Ackerman, Z S Katusic and K A Nath

Kidney Int 74: 47-51; advance online publication, March 26, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.110

See also: Commentary by Durante & Lin
A novel renal carbonic anhydrase type III plays a role in proximal tubule dysfunction

P Gailly, F Jouret, D Martin, H Debaix, K S Parreira, T Nishita, A Blanchard, C Antignac, T E Willnow, P J Courtoy, S J Scheinman, E I Christensen and O Devuyst

Kidney Int 74: 52-61; advance online publication, March 5, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ki.5002794

Cholinergic agonists attenuate renal ischemia–reperfusion injury in rats

M M Yeboah, X Xue, B Duan, M Ochani, K J Tracey, M Susin and C N Metz

Kidney Int 74: 62-69; advance online publication, April 9, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.94

Adrenomedullin inhibits connective tissue growth factor expression, extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation and renal fibrosis

T Nagae, K Mori, M Mukoyama, M Kasahara, H Yokoi, T Suganami, K Sawai, T Yoshioka, M Koshikawa, Y Saito, Y Ogawa, T Kuwabara, I Tanaka, A Sugawara, T Kuwahara and K Nakao

Kidney Int 74: 70-80; advance online publication, April 9, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.98

Effects of epithelial and neutrophil CXCR2 on innate immunity and resistance to kidney infection

M Svensson, H Irjala, C Svanborg and G Godaly

Kidney Int 74: 81-90; advance online publication, April 9, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.105

Diabetes and radiocontrast media increase endothelin converting enzyme-1 in the kidney

M Khamaisi, I Raz, V Shilo, A Shina, C Rosenberger, R Dahan, Z Abassi, R Meidan, S Lecht and S N Heyman

Kidney Int 74: 91-100; advance online publication, April 2, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.112

Clinical Research

The risk of acute renal failure in patients with chronic kidney disease

C Y Hsu, J D Ordoñez, G M Chertow, D Fan, C E McCulloch and A S Go

Kidney Int 74: 101-107; advance online publication, April 2, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.107

See also: Commentary by Dear & Yuen
The prevalence of hematologic and metabolic abnormalities during chronic kidney disease stages in different ethnic groups

S J Barbour, L Er, O Djurdjev, M A Karim and A Levin

Kidney Int 74: 108-114; advance online publication, April 23, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.151

Common genetic variants in the chromogranin A promoter alter autonomic activity and blood pressure

Y Chen, F Rao, J L Rodriguez-Flores, N R Mahapatra, M Mahata, G Wen, R M Salem, P-A B Shih, M Das, N J Schork, M G Ziegler, B A Hamilton, S K Mahata and D T O'Connor

Kidney Int 74: 115-125; advance online publication, April 23, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.113

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The Renal Consult

Paroxysmal hypertension due to baroreflex failure

T Zar and A J Peixoto

Kidney Int 74: 126-131; advance online publication, March 5, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.30

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Make Your Diagnosis

The Case | A boy with recurrent stones

Bodo B Beck, Norbert Laube, Sandra Habbig, Markus Feldkötter, Jochen W U Fries and Bernd Hoppe

Kidney Int 74: 133-134; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.165

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Nephrology Image

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis-related hydrothorax FREE

C-L Lang, T-W Kao, C-M Lee, C-W Tsai and M-S Wu

Kidney Int 74: 136; doi:10.1038/sj.ki.5002723

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