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1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3decreases podocyte loss and podocyte hypertrophy in the subtotally nephrectomized rat

scientific article published on November 4, 2003

A calcimimetic (R-568), but not calcitriol, prevents vascular remodeling in uremia

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ATP release in human kidney cortex and its mitogenic effects in visceral glomerular epithelial cells

scientific article published in May 2002

Acute blood pressure effects and chronic hypotensive action of calcimimetics in uremic rats

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Acute cardiovascular effects of the calcimimetic R-568 and its enantiomer S-568 in rats

scientific article published on 12 March 2009

Acute phase reaction to gadolinium-DTPA in dialysis patients

scientific article published on 28 November 2008

Administration of Cyclosporine A in Pregnant Rats - the Effect on Blood Pressure and on the Glomerular Number in Their Offspring.

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

African Americans compared to Senegalese--same number of glomeruli, but greater glomerular size. What does this tell us?

scientific article published on 11 March 2010

Alanine to serine polymorphism at position 986 of the calcium-sensing receptor associated with coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, all-cause, and cardiovascular mortality

scientific article published on 20 March 2007

Aldosterone and arterial hypertension

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Aldosterone and cortisol affect the risk of sudden cardiac death in haemodialysis patients

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Aldosterone and parathyroid hormone interactions as mediators of metabolic and cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 02 October 2013

Aldosterone and parathyroid hormone: a complex and clinically relevant relationship

scientific article published on October 2010

Aldosterone and parathyroid hormone: a precarious couple for cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

Aldosterone and the kidney: a rapidly moving frontier (an update).

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Aldosterone in uremia - beyond blood pressure

scientific article published on 08 January 2010

Aldosterone, a vasculotoxic agent--novel functions for an old hormone.

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

Aldosterone/renin ratio determines peripheral and central blood pressure values over a broad range

scientific article published in May 2010

An oral load of the early glycation compound lactuloselysine fails to accumulate in the serum of uraemic patients

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Arterial calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease.

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Association of plasma aldosterone with cardiovascular mortality in patients with low estimated GFR: the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) Study

scientific article published on 24 December 2010

Association of relative telomere length with progression of chronic kidney disease in two cohorts: effect modification by smoking and diabetes

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Associations of plasma renin with 10-year cardiovascular mortality, sudden cardiac death, and death due to heart failure

scientific article published on 23 May 2011

Atorvastatin and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients on Hemodialysis

scientific article published on April 14, 2011

Atorvastatin in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus undergoing hemodialysis

scientific article published in July 2005

Beneficial Effects of Estrogens on Indices of Renal Damage in Uninephrectomized SHRsp Rats

scientific article published in February 2004

Beneficial effects of calcimimetics on progression of renal failure and cardiovascular risk factors

scientific article published in April 2003

Blood pressure on dialysis: an ongoing controversy

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Both high and low maternal salt intake in pregnancy alter kidney development in the offspring.

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Calcification and cardiovascular problems in renal failure

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Calcification of coronary intima and media: immunohistochemistry, backscatter imaging, and x-ray analysis in renal and nonrenal patients

scientific article published on 06 December 2006

Calcimimetic R-568 or calcitriol: equally beneficial on progression of renal damage in subtotally nephrectomized rats.

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Calcitriol ameliorates capillary deficit and fibrosis of the heart in subtotally nephrectomized rats.

scientific article published in October 2008

Calcium, calcium regulatory hormones, and calcimimetics: impact on cardiovascular mortality

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Cardiomyocyte loss in experimental renal failure: prevention by ramipril

scientific article published in May 2003

Cardiovascular abnormalities and hypertension in the elderly dialysis patient

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Cardiovascular complications in the diabetic patient with renal disease: an update in 2003.

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Cinacalcet hydrochloride for the treatment of hyperparathyroidism

scientific article published on 04 March 2013

Circulating aldosterone and mortality in female nursing home residents.

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Circulating dopamine and C-peptide levels in fasting nondiabetic hypertensive patients: the Graz Endocrine Causes of Hypertension study

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Combination treatment with an ET(A)-receptor blocker and an ACE inhibitor is not superior to the respective monotherapies in attenuating chronic transplant nephropathy in a 'Fisher-to-Lewis' rat model

scientific article published in May 2002

Compelling drug indications in diabetic and nondiabetic nephropathy

scientific article published in August 2004

Comprehensive immunohistological analysis of the endothelin system in human kidney grafts

scientific article published on 31 January 2006

Congestive heart failure due to systolic dysfunction: the Cinderella of cardiovascular management in dialysis patients

scientific article published in May 2002

Control of sympathetic activity--new insights; new therapeutic targets?

scientific article published on 22 February 2010

Cross-talk between the kidney and the cardiovascular system

scientific article published on 06 July 2006

Damage to the peritoneal membrane by glucose degradation products is mediated by the receptor for advanced glycation end-products

scientific article published on 30 November 2005

Diabetic nephropathy: recent insights into the pathophysiology and the progression of diabetic nephropathy

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Dialyzer membrane characteristics and outcome of patients with type 2 diabetes on maintenance hemodialysis

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Different Relevance of Peripheral, Central or Nighttime Blood Pressure Measurements in the Prediction of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Patients with Mild or No-Proteinuria

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Do AV fistulas contribute to cardiac mortality in hemodialysis patients?

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Do beta-blockers combined with RAS inhibitors make sense after all to protect against renal injury?

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Dyslipidemia in chronic kidney disease: pathogenesis and intervention

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Effect of Endothelin Blockade on Early Cardiovascular Remodeling in the One-Clip-Two-Kidney Hypertension of the Rat

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Effect of a selective endothelin receptor A blocker on cardiovascular remodeling in uninephrectomized spontaneously hypertensive rats of the stroke-prone strain

scientific article published on 20 September 2007

Effect of antioxidant therapy with dl-alpha-tocopherol on cardiovascular structure in experimental renal failure

scientific article published in September 2002

Effect of eplerenone on parathyroid hormone levels in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

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Effect of eplerenone on parathyroid hormone levels in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism: results from the EPATH randomized, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

Effect of paricalcitol and calcitriol on aortic wall remodeling in uninephrectomized ApoE knockout mice

scientific article published on 15 December 2010

Effects of estrogens on cardiovascular structure in uninephrectomized SHRsp rats

scientific article published in March 2005

Erythropoietin combined with ACE inhibitor prevents heart remodeling in 5/6 nephrectomized rats independently of blood pressure and kidney function.

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Exposure of Pregnant Rats to Cigarette-Smoke Condensate Causes Glomerular Abnormalities in Offspring

scientific article published on October 25, 2012

Galectin-3, Renal Function, and Clinical Outcomes: Results from the LURIC and 4D Studies

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Gene expression profiling on global cDNA arrays gives hints concerning potential signal transduction pathways involved in cardiac fibrosis of renal failure

scientific article published on January 2003

Glucose degradation products in PD fluids: do they disappear from the peritoneal cavity and enter the systemic circulation?

scientific article published in January 2003

Glycemic control and cardiovascular events in diabetic hemodialysis patients

scientific article published on December 2009

HDL cholesterol, apolipoproteins, and cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis patients

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Hemodialysis--from early days to tomorrow

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High salt intake causes adverse fetal programming--vascular effects beyond blood pressure

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High-Dose Enalapril Treatment Reverses Myocardial Fibrosis in Experimental Uremic Cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on January 27, 2011

Homoarginine and progression of chronic kidney disease: results from the Mild to Moderate Kidney Disease Study

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Homoarginine in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism

scientific article published in April 2015

Homoarginine, cardiovascular risk, and mortality

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Homoarginine, heart failure, and sudden cardiac death in haemodialysis patients

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Homoarginine, kidney function and cardiovascular mortality risk

scientific article published on 06 January 2014

How can the cardiac death rate be reduced in dialysis patients?

How can the poor outcomes for diabetic dialysis patients be improved?

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

How should we manage anaemia in patients with diabetes?

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Hyperparathyroidism in patients with primary aldosteronism: cross-sectional and interventional data from the GECOH study

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Hyperphosphatemia aggravates cardiac fibrosis and microvascular disease in experimental uremia

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Hypertrophy and fibrosis in the cardiomyopathy of uremia--beyond coronary heart disease

scientific article published on 08 July 2008

Impact of aldosterone on osteoinductive signaling and vascular calcification

scientific article published on 06 November 2014

Impact of oral calcium on mortality of dialysis patients--an underestimated risk?

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Increased infarct size in uremic rats: reduced ischemia tolerance?

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Increased renoprotection with ACE inhibitor plus aldosterone antagonist as compared to monotherapies--the effect on podocytes

scientific article published on 8 August 2009

Independent association between 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D and the renin-angiotensin system: The Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study

scientific article published in June 2010

Interrelated aldosterone and parathyroid hormone mutually modify cardiovascular mortality risk

scientific article published on 4 March 2015

Interstitial fibrosis and microvascular disease of the heart in uremia: amelioration by a calcimimetic.

scientific article published on 2 February 2009

Intestinal cholesterol absorption, treatment with atorvastatin, and cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis patients

scientific article published on June 2015

Intraperitoneal protein injection in the axolotl: the amphibian kidney as a novel model to study tubulointerstitial activation

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Is there an obesity-metabolic syndrome related glomerulopathy?

scientific article published on January 2011

Kidney and hypertension

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Kidney and hypertension-causes. Update 2003.

scientific article published on December 2003

Late referral--a major cause of poor outcome in the very elderly dialysis patient

scientific article published on 05 January 2006

Lipid abnormalities and cardiovascular risk in renal disease

scientific article published on 27 March 2008

Lipid changes and statins in chronic renal insufficiency

scientific article published on December 2006

Lipoprotein(a) concentrations, apolipoprotein(a) isoforms and clinical endpoints in haemodialysis patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: results from the 4D Study.

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Longitudinal assessments of erythropoietin-stimulating agent responsiveness and the association with specific clinical outcomes in dialysis patients

scientific article published on 06 November 2014

Low homoarginine concentration is a novel risk factor for heart disease

scientific article published on 10 May 2011

Low serum homoarginine is a novel risk factor for fatal strokes in patients undergoing coronary angiography.

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Malignancy after renal transplantation

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Management of disturbances of calcium and phosphate metabolism in chronic renal insufficiency, with emphasis on the control of hyperphosphataemia.

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Marinobufagenin in essential hypertension and primary aldosteronism: a cardiotonic steroid with clinical and diagnostic implications

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Mediators of inflammatory and ischemic renal damage: the role of neoangiogenesis.

scientific article published in September 2005

Modulation of gene expression by moxonidine in rats with chronic renal failure

scientific journal article

Myocyte loss in early left ventricular hypertrophy of experimental renovascular hypertension

scientific article published on 2 April 2003

National Kidney Foundation consensus conference on cardiovascular and kidney diseases and diabetes risk: an integrated therapeutic approach to reduce events

scientific article published on 18 August 2010

Nephron number and renal risk in hypertension and diabetes

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Nephron number in patients with primary hypertension

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No aggravation of renal injury in apolipoprotein E knockout mice (ApoE(-/-)) after subtotal nephrectomy

scientific article published in March 2004

Nonhypotensive dose of beta-adrenergic blocker ameliorates capillary deficits in the hearts of rats with moderate renal failure

scientific article published on 12 May 2006

Not All Phosphate Is Created Equal

scientific article published on May 26, 2012

Nutritional status in dialysis patients: a European consensus

scientific article published in April 2002

Obesity and chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Oxidative stress after uninephrectomy alters heart morphology in the apolipoprotein E -/- mouse.

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Parathyroid hormone level is associated with mortality and cardiovascular events in patients undergoing coronary angiography

scientific article published on 02 May 2010

Pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease and renal failure

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Pathophysiology underlying accelerated atherogenesis in renal disease: closing in on the target

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Phosphate: a novel cardiovascular risk factor

scientific article published on October 7, 2012

Phosphatemia is related to chromosomal aberrations of parathyroid glands in patients with hyperparathyroidism

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Plasma aldosterone levels are associated with increased cardiovascular mortality: the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study

scientific article published on 2 March 2010

Prenatal programming—effects on blood pressure and renal function

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Preparation of the dialysis patient for transplantation

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Proteinuria after renal transplantation: pathogenesis and management

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Protocol biopsy: what is the rationale and what is the evidence?

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Randomized controlled trial on the efficacy and safety of atorvastatin in patients with type 2 diabetes on hemodialysis (4D study): demographic and baseline characteristics

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Reducing lipids for CV protection in CKD patients-current evidence

scientific article published on December 2008

Regression of glomerulosclerosis in subtotally nephrectomized rats: effects of monotherapy with losartan, spironolactone, and their combination.

scientific article published on 23 April 2008

Renal cystic disease (ADPKD and ARPKD)

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Renal damage in the SHR/N-cp type 2 diabetes model: comparison of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and endothelin receptor blocker

scientific article published in September 2003

Renoprotective effect of a dopamine D3 receptor antagonist in experimental type II diabetes

scientific article published in March 2006

Renoprotective effects of renin-angiotensin-system inhibitors

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Reversal of Glomerulosclerosis after High-Dose Enalapril Treatment in Subtotally Nephrectomized Rats

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Reversal of glomerular lesions involves coordinated restructuring of glomerular microvasculature

scientific article published in December 2004

Role of calcium-phosphorous disorders in the progression of renal failure

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Role of sodium intake in the progression of chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Salt--a potential 'uremic toxin'?

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Statin use prolongs patient survival after renal transplantation

scientific article published on 08 October 2008

Statins: do we definitely know whether they are completely inefficacious in ESRD?

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Strategies to decrease cardiovascular mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease

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Symmetrical and asymmetrical dimethylarginine as predictors for mortality in patients referred for coronary angiography: the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health study

scientific article published on 29 October 2010

Sympathetic overactivity--the Cinderella of cardiovascular risk factors in dialysis patients

scientific article published on 08 July 2008

The apolipoprotein e knockout mouse: a model documenting accelerated atherogenesis in uremia

scientific article published in February 2003

The association between parathyroid hormone and mortality in dialysis patients is modified by wasting

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

The calcimimetic R-568 prevents podocyte loss in uninephrectomized ApoE-/- mice

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

The challenge of sudden death in dialysis patients

scientific article published on 27 March 2008

The combination of ACE inhibition plus sympathetic denervation is superior to ACE inhibitor monotherapy in the rat renal ablation model

scientific article published on 07 March 2007

The double challenge of resistant hypertension and chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on October 2015

The epidemiology of end-stage renal disease in Iran in an international perspective

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The living kidney donor: giving life, avoiding harm

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Uric Acid and Cardiovascular Events: A Mendelian Randomization Study

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Uric acid as a risk factor for progression of non-diabetic chronic kidney disease? The Mild to Moderate Kidney Disease (MMKD) Study

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Vascular calcification: a stiff challenge for the nephrologist: does preventing bone disease cause arterial disease?

scientific article published in October 2004

Vasculotropic effects of calcimimetics.

scientific article published on January 2010

Vitamin D and cancer mortality: systematic review of prospective epidemiological studies

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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with sudden cardiac death, combined cardiovascular events, and mortality in haemodialysis patients

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Vitamin D status and arterial hypertension: a systematic review

scientific article published on 18 August 2009

Vitamin D status and clinical outcomes in incident dialysis patients: results from the NECOSAD study

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

Vitamin D status and mortality in chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 04 March 2011

Vitamin D, cardiovascular disease and mortality

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Wasting and Sudden Cardiac Death in Hemodialysis Patients: A Post Hoc Analysis of 4D (Die Deutsche Diabetes Dialyse Studie)

scientific article published on 05 August 2011

Why is coronary heart disease of uraemic patients so frequent and so devastating?

scientific article published on 01 April 2003