1. Satellite Symposium “The Kidney and Hypertension” of The 36th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS), July 24–25, 2009 Tokyo, Japan

   Preface 16 February 2012 Pages: 1 - 1

   

2. List of Contributors

   Preface 16 February 2012 Pages: 2 - 2

3. The kidney and hypertension

   • Katsumasa Kawahara
   • Kouju Kamata

   Preface 16 February 2012 Pages: 3 - 7

4. Cardiorenal connection in chronic kidney disease

   • Sadayoshi Ito

   Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 8 - 16

   

5. Convergence of major physiological stimuli for renin release on the Gs-alpha/cyclic adenosine monophosphate signaling pathway

   • Soo Mi Kim
   • Josephine P. Briggs
   • Jurgen Schnermann

   Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 17 - 24

   

6. Towards developing new strategies to reduce the adverse side-effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

   • Noritaka Kawada
   • Toshiki Moriyama
   • Yoshitaka Isaka

   Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 25 - 29

7. The roles of V1a vasopressin receptors in blood pressure homeostasis: a review of studies on V1a receptor knockout mice

   • Yoko Fujiwara
   • Akito Tanoue
   • Taka-aki Koshimizu

   Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 30 - 34

   

8. Regulation and dysregulation of epithelial Na⁺ channels

   • Lawrence G. Palmer
   • Ankit Patel
   • Gustavo Frindt

   Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 35 - 43

   

9. Proteolytic activation of the epithelial sodium channel and therapeutic application of a serine protease inhibitor for the treatment of salt-sensitive hypertension

   • Kenichiro Kitamura
   • Kimio Tomita

   Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 44 - 48

   

10. Renal outer medullary potassium channel knockout models reveal thick ascending limb function and dysfunction

    • Tong Wang

    Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 49 - 54

    

11. Effects of cytokines on potassium channels in renal tubular epithelia

    • Kazuyoshi Nakamura
    • You Komagiri
    • Manabu Kubokawa

    Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 55 - 60

    

12. Claudins and renal salt transport

    • Shigeaki Muto
    • Mikio Furuse
    • Eiji Kusano

    Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 61 - 67

    

13. The role of the kidney in salt-sensitive hypertension

    • Francesco Trepiccione
    • Miriam Zacchia
    • Giovambattista Capasso

    Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 68 - 72

    

14. Serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase 1 in the regulation of renal and extrarenal potassium transport

    • Florian Lang
    • Volker Vallon

    Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 73 - 80

15. Aldosterone stimulates nuclear factor-kappa B activity and transcription of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 and connective tissue growth factor in rat mesangial cells via serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible protein kinase-1

    • Yoshio Terada
    • Satoko Ueda
    • Toshihiro Takao

    Review Article 01 November 2011 Pages: 81 - 88

    

16. Recent advances in renal urate transport: characterization of candidate transporters indicated by genome-wide association studies

    • Naohiko Anzai
    • Promsuk Jutabha
    • Hiroyuki Sakurai

    Review article 01 November 2011 Pages: 89 - 95

    

17. Clinical impact of albuminuria in diabetic nephropathy

    • Takashi Wada
    • Miho Shimizu
    • Kengo Furuichi

    Review Article 10 August 2011 Pages: 96 - 101

    

18. Treatment strategy based on targeting P-glycoprotein on peripheral lymphocytes in patients with systemic autoimmune disease

    • Shizuyo Tsujimura
    • Yoshiya Tanaka

    Review Article 17 August 2011 Pages: 102 - 108

    

19. Mechanisms and interventions in peritoneal fibrosis

    • Yasuhiko Tomino

    Review Article 21 September 2011 Pages: 109 - 114

    

20. Scavenger receptor expressions in the kidneys of mice with lipoprotein glomerulopathy

    • Yoshiro Miyahara
    • Shinsuke Nishimura
    • Takao Saito

    Original Article 11 November 2011 Pages: 115 - 121

    

21. Significance of the duration of nephropathy for achieving clinical remission in patients with IgA nephropathy treated by tonsillectomy and steroid pulse therapy

    • Norio Ieiri
    • Osamu Hotta
    • Yoshio Taguma

    Original Article 13 September 2011 Pages: 122 - 129

    

22. Influence of renin–angiotensin system on serum parathyroid hormone levels in uremic patients

    • Fumihiko Koiwa
    • Daisuke Komukai
    • Takashi Shigematsu

    Original Article 14 September 2011 Pages: 130 - 135

23. Hypervolemic hypernatremia in patients recovering from acute kidney injury in the intensive care unit

    • Ramin Sam
    • Peter Hart
    • Todd S. Ing

    Original Article 27 September 2011 Pages: 136 - 146

    

24. Relationship between dietary intake and microalbuminuria: findings from the Takahata study

    • Masahiro Sato
    • Atsushi Hozawa
    • Akira Fukao

    Original Article 04 October 2011 Pages: 147 - 155

25. Accumulation of visceral fat in maintenance hemodialysis patients

    • Takatomi Yurugi
    • Satoshi Morimoto
    • Toshiji Iwasaka

    Original Article 13 October 2011 Pages: 156 - 163

    

26. Urate nephropathy associated with impaired kinetic properties of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase in a 45-day-old infant

    • Rashi Singal
    • Sriram Krishnamurthy
    • Vanna Micheli

    Case Report 09 September 2011 Pages: 164 - 167

    

27. Granulomatous interstitial nephritis associated with atypical drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome induced by carbamazepine

    • Eriko Eguchi
    • Keiji Shimazu
    • Takashi Kuwahara

    Case report Open access 23 September 2011 Pages: 168 - 172

    

28. Serial renal biopsy findings in a case of POEMS syndrome with recurrent acute renal failure

    • Atsuko Y. Higashi
    • Fumiaki Nogaki
    • Atsushi Fukatsu

    Case Report 08 October 2011 Pages: 173 - 179

    

29. Early occurrence of nephrotic syndrome associated with cord blood stem cell transplantation

    • Kenichiro Miura
    • Takashi Sekine
    • Takashi Igarashi

    Case Report 12 October 2011 Pages: 180 - 182

30. A potential salvage therapy for refractory renal cyst infection in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

    • Chih-Chao Yang
    • Feng-Rong Chuang
    • Chien-Hsing Wu

    Letter to the Editor 30 November 2011 Pages: 183 - 184

    

31. “Fatal” gas in the kidney

    • Jsun-Liang Kao
    • Shih-Ching Tsai
    • Chih-Chung Shiao

    Images in nephrology 09 December 2011 Pages: 185 - 185