BACKGROUND Kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1), a recently discovered transmembrane protein, is expressed in dedifferentiated proximal renal tubular epithelial cells in damaged regions. Kidney injury early detection in diabetic patients has great importance for therapy and prognosis. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to predict, validate and evaluate the presence of KIM-1 in kidney inflam...

A Multiplex Real-time PCR Assay for the Rapid Detection of Methicillin1 Resistant Staphylococci Directly from Positive Blood Cultures 2 3 Hye-young Wang, Sunghyun Kim , Jungho Kim, Soon-Deok Park , Young Uh, and 4 Hyeyoung Lee 5 6 M&D, Inc., Wonju Eco Environmental Technology Center, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, 2007 722, Republic of Korea 8 Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Heal...

Data Resource Profile: The Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (KYRBS) Yoonjung Kim, Sunhye Choi, Chaemin Chun, Suyeon Park, Young-Ho Khang and Kyungwon Oh* Division of Health and Nutrition Survey, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju-si, Korea, Department of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea and Institute of Health ...

Je m’en vais conter l’histoire étrange de François Turlubec. Non pas que ses aventures soient si différentes de celles que chacun d’entre nous puisse imaginer. Non. Nous avons tous, plus ou moins rêvé à des choses extraordinaires, des choses qui heurtent le sens commun, des choses qui vont à l’encontre des perceptions coutumières. Mais lui, il les a vécues, vraiment, enfin tout au moins nous so...

Sensitive biomarkers are needed to detect kidney injury at the earliest stages. The objective of this study was to determine whether the appearance of kidney injury molecule-1 (Kim-1) protein ectodomain in urine and kidney injury molecule-1/hepatitis A viral cellular receptor-1 (Kim-1/Havcr1) gene expression in kidney tissue may be more predictive of renal injury after exposure to nephrotoxican...

Buyers’ Alliances for Bargaining Power by Suchan Chae and Paul Heidhues We provide a novel explanation as to why forming an alliance of buyers (or sellers) across separate markets can be advantageous when input prices are determined by bargaining. Our explanation helps to understand the prevalence of buyer cooperatives among small and medium sized firms.

With more marginal deceased donors affecting graft viability, there is a need for specific parameters to assess kidney graft quality at the time of organ procurement in the deceased donor. Recently, kidney injury molecule-1 (Kim-1) was described as an early biomarker of renal proximal tubular damage. We assessed Kim-1 in a small animal brain death model as an early and noninvasive marker for do...

The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) in the serum, urine and renal tissues of children with acute kidney injury (AKI) and Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis (A-on-C). A prospective single-center evaluation of the serum, urine and renal NGAL and KIM-1 levels was performed in a cohort of c...

BACKGROUND Kidney disease (KD) is common in older cats and presumed to arise from subclinical kidney injuries throughout life. Sensitive markers for detecting kidney injury are lacking. Kidney injury molecule 1 (KIM-1) is a useful biomarker of kidney injury in humans and rodents. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Feline KIM-1 is conserved across species, expressed in kidney, and shed into urine of cats w...

Etiologies and Predictors of False-Positive Diagnosis of ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Myung Hwan Bae, MD, Sang Soo Cheon, MD, Joon Hyuk Song, MD, Se Yong Jang, MD, Won Suk Choi, MD, Kyun Hee Kim, MD, Sun Hee Park, MD, Jang Hoon Lee, MD, Dong Heon Yang, MD, Hun Sik Park, MD, Yongkeun Cho, MD, and Shung Chull Chae, MD Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Ho...