TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 75, Issue 9 (May (1) 2009)

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Journal Club

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Kidney Int 75: 871-872; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.89

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Commentaries

Is hepcidin the star player in iron metabolism in chronic kidney disease?

Yasuhiro Hamada and Masafumi Fukagawa

Kidney Int 75: 873-874; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.46

See also: Original Article by Ashby et al.

Fetuin–mineral complex: a new potential biomarker for vascular calcification?

Hirotaka Komaba and Masafumi Fukagawa

Kidney Int 75: 874-876; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.52

See also: Original Article by Matsui et al.

Tissue proteomics: a new investigative tool for renal biopsy analysis

John R Sedor

Kidney Int 75: 876-879; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.54

See also: Original Article by Sethi et al.
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Translational Nephrology

Phosphate: despite advances in research, the benefits to patients remain limited

Marc E De Broe

Kidney Int 75: 880-881; advance online publication, February 11, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.692

Latest findings in phosphate homeostasis

Dominique Prié, Pablo Ureña Torres and Gérard Friedlander

Kidney Int 75: 882-889; advance online publication, February 4, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.643

The emerging role of phosphate in vascular calcification

Cecilia M Giachelli

Kidney Int 75: 890-897; advance online publication, January 14, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.644

Phosphate and the parathyroid

Justin Silver and Tally Naveh-Many

Kidney Int 75: 898-905; advance online publication, January 7, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.642

Oral phosphate binders

Alastair J Hutchison

Kidney Int 75: 906-914; advance online publication, March 11, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.60

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Original Articles

Basic Research

Fully phosphorylated fetuin-A forms a mineral complex in the serum of rats with adenine-induced renal failure

Isao Matsui, Takayuki Hamano, Satoshi Mikami, Naohiko Fujii, Yoshitsugu Takabatake, Yasuyuki Nagasawa, Noritaka Kawada, Takahito Ito, Hiromi Rakugi, Enyu Imai and Yoshitaka Isaka

Kidney Int 75: 915-928; advance online publication, February 4, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.700

See also: Commentary by Komaba & Fukagawa
Increased tissue acid mediates a progressive decline in the glomerular filtration rate of animals with reduced nephron mass

Donald E Wesson and Jan Simoni

Kidney Int 75: 929-935; advance online publication, February 4, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.6

Aldosterone antagonism or synthase inhibition reduces end-organ damage induced by treatment with angiotensin and high salt

William B Lea, Eun Soo Kwak, James M Luther, Susan M Fowler, Zuofei Wang, Ji Ma, Agnes B Fogo and Nancy J Brown

Kidney Int 75: 936-944; advance online publication, February 18, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.9

Imaging renal structures by X-ray phase-contrast microtomography

Jin Wu, Tohoru Takeda, Thet Thet Lwin, Atsushi Momose, Naoki Sunaguchi, Tadanori Fukami, Tetsuya Yuasa and Takao Akatsuka

Kidney Int 75: 945-951; advance online publication, February 25, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.42

Clinical Research

Glomeruli of Dense Deposit Disease contain components of the alternative and terminal complement pathway

Sanjeev Sethi, Jeffrey D Gamez, Julie A Vrana, Jason D Theis, H Robert Bergen III, Peter F Zipfel, Ahmet Dogan and Richard J H Smith

Kidney Int 75: 952-960; advance online publication, January 28, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.657

See also: Commentary by Sedor
Thiazolidinedione use is associated with better survival in hemodialysis patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes

Steven M Brunelli, Ravi Thadhani, T Alp Ikizler and Harold I Feldman

Kidney Int 75: 961-968; advance online publication, February 4, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.4

Pulmonary hypertension is an independent predictor of mortality in hemodialysis patients

Mordechai Yigla, Oren Fruchter, Doron Aharonson, Noa Yanay, Shimon A Reisner, Moshe Lewin and Farid Nakhoul

Kidney Int 75: 969-975; advance online publication, February 11, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.10

Plasma hepcidin levels are elevated but responsive to erythropoietin therapy in renal disease

Damien R Ashby, Daniel P Gale, Mark Busbridge, Kevin G Murphy, Neill D Duncan, Tom D Cairns, David H Taube, Stephen R Bloom, Frederick W K Tam, Richard S Chapman, Patrick H Maxwell and Peter Choi

Kidney Int 75: 976-981; advance online publication, February 11, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.21

See also: Commentary by Hamada & Fukagawa
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Technical Notes

Sequential evaluation of prognostic models in the early diagnosis of acute kidney injury in the intensive care unit

Verônica Torres Costa e Silva, Isac de Castro, Fernando Liaño, Alfonso Muriel, Jose R Rodríguez-Palomares and Luis Yu

Kidney Int 75: 982-986; advance online publication, February 11, 2009; doi:10.1038/ki.2009.3

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The Renal Consult

Acute phosphate nephropathy

Alexander K Rocuts, Sushrut S Waikar, Mariam P Alexander, Helmut G Rennke and Ajay K Singh

Kidney Int 75: 987-991; advance online publication, June 25, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.293

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Make Your Diagnosis

The Case | Metabolic disarray after fire extinguisher powder ingestion

Cheng-Jui Lin, Han-Hsiang Chen, Kuo-Song Chang, Cheng-Yi Hsu, Yi-Chou Chen and Chih-Jen Wu

Kidney Int 75: 993-994; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.668

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Nephrology Images

Milky plasma, diabetes, and severe hyponatremia FREE

Ming-Yu Lai, Chih-Ching Lin, Sheng-Liang Chung, Ching-Herng Wu, Wu-Chang Yang and Yung-Te Tseng

Kidney Int 75: 996; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.335

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