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List of works by Richard J. Johnson

A Role for Both V1a and V2 Receptors in Renal Heat Stress Injury Amplified by Rehydration with Fructose

scientific article published on 16 November 2019

A pilot study on the impact of a low fructose diet and allopurinol on clinic blood pressure among overweight and prehypertensive subjects: a randomized placebo controlled trial.

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Aging-associated renal disease in mice is fructokinase dependent.

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Are Liquid Sugars Different from Solid Sugar in Their Ability to Cause Metabolic Syndrome?

scientific article published on 4 May 2019

Asymptomatic hyperuricaemia: a silent activator of the innate immune system

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Cause in Agricultural Communities

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Chronic kidney disease: Mesoamerican nephropathy--new clues to the cause.

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Correction: Increased Serum Sodium and Serum Osmolarity Are Independent Risk Factors for Developing Chronic Kidney Disease; 5 Year Cohort Study.

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Counteracting roles of AMP deaminase and AMP kinase in the development of fatty liver

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Diabetes and Kidney Disease in American Indians: Potential Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.

scientific article published on June 2015

Dietary fructose causes tubulointerstitial injury in the normal rat kidney

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Effect of Febuxostat on the Progression of Renal Disease in 5/6 Nephrectomy Rats with and without Hyperuricemia

scientific article published on 24 April 2008

Effects of exogenous desmopressin on a model of heat stress nephropathy in mice.

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Effects of febuxostat on metabolic and renal alterations in rats with fructose-induced metabolic syndrome.

scientific article published on 23 January 2008

Evolutionary basis for the human diet: consequences for human health

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Experimental heat stress nephropathy and liver injury are improved by allopurinol

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Finding the truth: blind faith and the lemming phenomenon

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Fluid Intake Restriction Concomitant to Sweetened Beverages Hydration Induce Kidney Damage

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Fructokinase activity mediates dehydration-induced renal injury

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Fructose Production and Metabolism in the Kidney

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Fructose and sugar: A major mediator of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Fructose increases risk for kidney stones: potential role in metabolic syndrome and heat stress

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Fructose metabolism as a common evolutionary pathway of survival associated with climate change, food shortage and droughts

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Fructose-induced metabolic syndrome is associated with glomerular hypertension and renal microvascular damage in rats

scientific article published on 29 August 2006

Genetic Polymorphisms in Hypertension: Are We Missing the Immune Connection?

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Heat Stress Nephropathy From Exercise-Induced Uric Acid Crystalluria: A Perspective on Mesoamerican Nephropathy

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Hemodynamics of hyperuricemia.

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Hispanic Americans living in the United States and their risk for obesity, diabetes and kidney disease: Genetic and environmental considerations.

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How safe is fructose for persons with or without diabetes?

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Hyperosmolarity and Increased Serum Sodium Concentration Are Risks for Developing Hypertension Regardless of Salt Intake: A Five-Year Cohort Study in Japan

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Hyperosmolarity drives hypertension and CKD--water and salt revisited.

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Hypertension: New treatment target for systolic blood pressure?

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Hyperuricemia, Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Disease: Report of a Scientific Workshop Organized by the National Kidney Foundation

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Hyponatremia with Persistent Elevated Urinary Fractional Uric Acid Excretion: Evidence for Proximal Tubular Injury?

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

Increase of core temperature affected the progression of kidney injury by repeated heat stress exposure

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Kidney Injury from Recurrent Heat Stress and Rhabdomyolysis: Protective Role of Allopurinol and Sodium Bicarbonate

scientific article published on 02 November 2018

Metabolic and Kidney Diseases in the Setting of Climate Change, Water Shortage, and Survival Factors

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Microvascular disease and its role in the brain and cardiovascular system: a potential role for uric acid as a cardiorenal toxin

scientific article published on 08 October 2010

Obesity causes renal mitochondrial dysfunction and energy imbalance and accelerates chronic kidney disease in mice

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Opposing activity changes in AMP deaminase and AMP-activated protein kinase in the hibernating ground squirrel

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Perspective: A Historical and Scientific Perspective of Sugar and Its Relation with Obesity and Diabetes

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Probiotic supplements prevented oxonic acid-induced hyperuricemia and renal damage

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Rehydration with fructose worsens dehydration-induced renal damage

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Reply to 'The case for evidence-based medicine for the association between hyperuricaemia and CKD'

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Role of fructose and fructokinase in acute dehydration-induced vasopressin gene expression and secretion in mice

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Role of oxidative stress in the renal abnormalities induced by experimental hyperuricemia.

scientific article published on 13 August 2008

Sugar, uric acid, and the etiology of diabetes and obesity.

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Synergistic effect of uricase blockade plus physiological amounts of fructose-glucose on glomerular hypertension and oxidative stress in rats.

scientific article published on 9 January 2013

The case for uric acid-lowering treatment in patients with hyperuricaemia and CKD

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

The conundrum of hyperuricemia, metabolic syndrome, and renal disease.

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The fructose survival hypothesis for obesity

scientific article published in 2023

The perils of rehydrating with soft drinks following heat and exercise

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

The rediscovery of uric acid in cardiorenal disease: introduction.

scientific article published in September 2011

Treatment with the xanthine oxidase inhibitor febuxostat lowers uric acid and alleviates systemic and glomerular hypertension in experimental hyperuricaemia.

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Umami: the taste that drives purine intake.

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Upper Paleolithic Figurines Showing Women with Obesity may Represent Survival Symbols of Climatic Change

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Uric Acid as a Cause of the Metabolic Syndrome

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

Uric acid activates aldose reductase and the polyol pathway for endogenous fructose and fat production causing development of fatty liver in rats

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Uric acid and chronic kidney disease: which is chasing which?

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Uric acid induces hepatic steatosis by generation of mitochondrial oxidative stress: potential role in fructose-dependent and -independent fatty liver.

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Uric acid-induced endothelial dysfunction is associated with mitochondrial alterations and decreased intracellular ATP concentrations

scientific article published on 07 December 2012

Uric acid: a clinically useful marker to distinguish preeclampsia from gestational hypertension.

scientific article published on 29 August 2011

Vasopressin Mediates the Renal Damage Induced by Limited Fructose Rehydration in Recurrently Dehydrated Rats

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

What are the key arguments against uric acid as a true risk factor for hypertension?

scientific article published on 4 March 2013