TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2009

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Occasional Observation
JASN Debates
Brief Review
Special Article
Science in Renal Medicine

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CLINICAL RESEARCH

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This Month's Highlights

This Month's Highlights
J Am Soc Nephrol 20: A13. [Full Text] [PDF]

UP FRONT MATTERS

Obituary

On the Passing of Thomas E. Andreoli
Donald W. Seldin J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1417-1419. [Full Text] [PDF]

Editorials

How to Build a Tight but Permeable Glomerular Junction
Sebastian Martini and Matthias Kretzler J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1420-1421. [Full Text] [PDF]

Type II Calcimimetics and Polycystic Kidney Disease: Unanswered Questions
Vicente E. Torres J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1421-1425. [Full Text] [PDF]

The Promise of Well-Being: Stay in Shape with N(i)ck
Thomas Benzing J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1425-1427. [Full Text] [PDF]

Glomerular Filtration: Still Sympathetic to Endothelin's Influence?
Tracy E. Hunley and Valentina Kon J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1427-1429. [Full Text] [PDF]

Do Genes Allow Inflammation to Kill or Not to Kill?
Csaba P. Kovesdy and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1429-1431. [Full Text] [PDF]

Occasional Observation

Why Is the Mortality of Dialysis Patients in the United States Much Higher than the Rest of the World?
Robert N. Foley and Raymond M. Hakim J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1432-1435. [Full Text] [PDF]

JASN Debates

Resolved: Targeting a Higher Hemoglobin Is Associated with Greater Risk in Patients with CKD Anemia: Pro
Ajay K. Singh, Jonathan Himmelfarb, and Lynda Anne Szczech J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1436-1443. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Brief Review

Apical Lumen Formation in Renal Epithelia
Marc A. Schlüter and Ben Margolis J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1444-1452. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Special Article

Vascular Calcification: The Killer of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Masahide Mizobuchi, Dwight Towler, and Eduardo Slatopolsky J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1453-1464. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Science in Renal Medicine

How Does the Ureteric Bud Branch?
Sanjay K. Nigam and Mita M. Shah J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1465-1469. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

BASIC RESEARCH

Cellular Origins of Type IV Collagen Networks in Developing Glomeruli
Dale R. Abrahamson, Billy G. Hudson, Larysa Stroganova, Dorin-Bogdan Borza, and Patricia L. St. John J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1471-1479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Nucleotides Downregulate Aquaporin 2 via Activation of Apical P2 Receptors
Scott S. P. Wildman, Michelle Boone, Claire M. Peppiatt-Wildman, Alberto Contreras-Sanz, Brian F. King, David G. Shirley, Peter M. T. Deen, and Robert J. Unwin J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1480-1490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Slit Diaphragms Contain Tight Junction Proteins
Hirotaka Fukasawa, Scott Bornheimer, Krystyna Kudlicka, and Marilyn G. Farquhar J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1491-1503. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

Dietary Phosphorus Acutely Impairs Endothelial Function
Emi Shuto, Yutaka Taketani, Rieko Tanaka, Nagakatsu Harada, Masashi Isshiki, Minako Sato, Kunitaka Nashiki, Kikuko Amo, Hironori Yamamoto, Yukihito Higashi, Yutaka Nakaya, and Eiji Takeda J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1504-1512. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

CTGF Promotes Inflammatory Cell Infiltration of the Renal Interstitium by Activating NF- ${kappa}$ B
Elsa Sánchez-López, Sandra Rayego, Raquel Rodrigues-Díez, Javier Sánchez Rodriguez, Raúl Rodrigues-Díez, Juan Rodríguez-Vita, Gisselle Carvajal, Luiz Stark Aroeira, Rafael Selgas, Sergio A. Mezzano, Alberto Ortiz, Jesús Egido, and Marta Ruiz-Ortega J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1513-1526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Calcimimetic Inhibits Late-Stage Cyst Growth in ADPKD
Vincent H. Gattone, II, Neal X. Chen, Rachel M. Sinders, Mark F. Seifert, Danxia Duan, David Martin, Charles Henley, and Sharon M. Moe J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1527-1532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Nck Proteins Maintain the Adult Glomerular Filtration Barrier
Nina Jones, Laura A. New, Megan A. Fortino, Vera Eremina, Julie Ruston, Ivan M. Blasutig, Lamine Aoudjit, Youling Zou, Xiuwen Liu, Guo-Liang Yu, Tomoko Takano, Susan E. Quaggin, and Tony Pawson J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1533-1543. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

IRF-1 Promotes Inflammation Early after Ischemic Acute Kidney Injury
Yanxia Wang, Reji John, Jianlin Chen, James A. Richardson, John M. Shelton, Michael Bennett, Xin J. Zhou, Glenn T. Nagami, Ying Zhang, Qing Qing Wu, and Christopher Y. Lu J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1544-1555. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Bestrophin 1 Promotes Epithelial-to-mesenchymal Transition of Renal Collecting Duct Cells
Fadi Aldehni, Melanie Spitzner, Joana Raquel Martins, René Barro-Soria, Rainer Schreiber, and Karl Kunzelmann J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1556-1564. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

The E-Selectin Ligand Basigin/CD147 Is Responsible for Neutrophil Recruitment in Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion
Noritoshi Kato, Yukio Yuzawa, Tomoki Kosugi, Akinori Hobo, Waichi Sato, Yuko Miwa, Kazuma Sakamoto, Seiichi Matsuo, and Kenji Kadomatsu J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1565-1576. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

Connexin 40 Mediates the Tubuloglomerular Feedback Contribution to Renal Blood Flow Autoregulation
Armin Just, Lisa Kurtz, Cor de Wit, Charlotte Wagner, Armin Kurtz, and William J. Arendshorst J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1577-1585. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

Amino Acid Transporter LAT3 Is Required for Podocyte Development and Function
Yuji Sekine, Yukino Nishibori, Yoshihiro Akimoto, Akihiko Kudo, Noriko Ito, Daisuke Fukuhara, Ryota Kurayama, Eiji Higashihara, Ellappan Babu, Yoshikatsu Kanai, Katsuhiko Asanuma, Michio Nagata, Årindam Majumdar, Karl Tryggvason, and Kunimasa Yan J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1586-1596. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Linkage Analysis of Albuminuria
Amy K. Mottl, Suma Vupputuri, Shelley A. Cole, Laura Almasy, Harald H.H. Göring, Vincent P. Diego, Sandra Laston, Nawar Shara, Elisa T. Lee, Lyle G. Best, Richard R. Fabsitz, Jean W. MacCluer, Jason G. Umans, and Kari E. North J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1597-1606. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Press Release]

Possible Effects of the New Medicare Reimbursement Policy on African Americans with ESRD
Areef Ishani, Haifeng Guo, Thomas J. Arneson, David T. Gilbertson, Lih-Wen Mau, Suying Li, Stephan Dunning, and Allan J. Collins J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1607-1613. [Full Text] [PDF] [Press Release]

Association of Preventive Health Care with Atherosclerotic Heart Disease and Mortality in CKD
Jon J. Snyder and Allan J. Collins J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1614-1622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Press Release]

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Chromogranin A Regulates Renal Function by Triggering Weibel–Palade Body Exocytosis
Yuqing Chen, Manjula Mahata, Fangwen Rao, Srikrishna Khandrika, Maite Courel, Maple M. Fung, Kuixing Zhang, Mats Stridsberg, Michael G. Ziegler, Bruce A. Hamilton, Michael S. Lipkowitz, Laurent Taupenot, Caroline Nievergelt, Sushil K. Mahata, and Daniel T. O'Connor J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1623-1632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

A Recessive Gene for Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux Maps to Chromosome 12p11-q13
Patricia L. Weng, Simone Sanna-Cherchi, Terry Hensle, Ellen Shapiro, Alan Werzberger, Gianluca Caridi, Claudia Izzi, Anita Konka, Adam C. Reese, Rong Cheng, Samuel Werzberger, Richard N. Schlussel, Robert D. Burk, Joseph H. Lee, Roberto Ravazzolo, Francesco Scolari, Gian Marco Ghiggeri, Kenneth Glassberg, and Ali G. Gharavi J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1633-1640. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data][Press Release]

CCR5 Deletion Protects Against Inflammation-Associated Mortality in Dialysis Patients
Friso L.H. Muntinghe, Marion Verduijn, Mike W. Zuurman, Diana C. Grootendorst, Juan Jesus Carrero, Abdul Rashid Qureshi, Karin Luttropp, Louise Nordfors, Bengt Lindholm, Vincent Brandenburg, Martin Schalling, Peter Stenvinkel, Elisabeth W. Boeschoten, Raymond T. Krediet, Gerjan Navis, and Friedo W. Dekker J Am Soc Nephrol 20: 1641-1649. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]