This review highlights some of the more important advances that have been made in renal physiology, nephrology and renal replacement therapy. There have been dramatic advances in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms in physiology, pathology and in the pharmacology ofimmunosuppression. We understand better the factors that lead to the relentless progression to end stage renal failure in...

PA Renal, Winter 2010 Dr. Dave Johnson, Instructor 432 Stella Maris [email protected] Suggested Reading: There is no assigned reading other than this handout. However, a good reference text if you would like to buy one is Koeppen and Stanton’s Renal Physiology, 4 edition, Mosby Elsevier, 2007, For this particular lecture (glomerular filtration), Chapter 3 is the reference chapter to read in this...

Molecular Physiology of Renal Aquaporins and Sodium Transporters: Exciting Approaches to Understand Regulation of Renal Water Handling Jørgen Frøkiær,* Søren Nielsen*, and Mark A. Knepper *The Water and Salt Research Centre, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark; and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland J Am Soc Nephrol 16: ???–???, 20...

A generation of renal physiologists and clinical nephrologists owe their expertise to the direct influence of Homer W. Smith. Working with him In his laboratory, conferring with him personally, or corresponding through the malls, young would-be scientists worldwide were molded by him into investigators. teachers, and practitioners of renal medicine. A remarkable feature of Smith’s great influen...