OBJECTIVE Acute renal failure (ARF) is one of the most common causes of death in patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). Here, we aimed to investigate the risk factors of ARF in patients with SAP, assess the prognosis of patients with SAP and ARF, and seek potential measures to prevent ARF. METHOD A cross-sectional study was performed to analyze the data from patients with SAP. Both un...

Despite advances in medical technology, acute renal failure (ARF) still represents a major challenge in clinical medicine, as morbidity and mortality have remained unchanged over the past two decades. The pathophysiology of ARF is highly complex and only poorly understood; new insights into the pathophysiology of ARF are therefore of utmost importance to develop better understanding and therapi...

The ARF and p53 tumor suppressors mediate Myc-induced apoptosis and suppress lymphoma development in E mu-myc transgenic mice. Here we report that the proapoptotic Bcl-2 family member Bax also mediates apoptosis triggered by Myc and inhibits Myc-induced lymphomagenesis. Bax-deficient primary pre-B cells are resistant to the apoptotic effects of Myc, and Bax loss accelerates lymphoma development...

We performed 73 kidney transplants in 51 patients with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) with focal segmental glomerular sclerosis (FSG) ages 18.4 +/- 12.8 (mean +/- SD) years. Recurrence of SRNS, defined by rapid onset of proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia and/or > 95% epithelial cell foot process effacement with or without the presence of FSG, occurred in 26 grafts in 16 patients. Acute r...

Adequate nutritional support is necessary to maintain protein stores and to correct pre-existing or disease-related deficits in lean body mass. The objectives for nutritional support for patients with acute renal failure (ARF) are not much different from those with other catabolic conditions. The principles of nutritional support for ARF, however, differ from those for patients with chronic ren...

Transgenic mice expressing the c-Myc oncogene driven by the immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer (Emu) develop B-cell lymphoma and exhibit a mean survival time of approximately 6 months. The protracted latent period before the onset of frank disease likely reflects the ability of c-Myc to induce a p53-dependent apoptotic program that initially protects animals against tumor formation but is disa...

We compute the linear order, general relativistic corrections to angular redshift fluctuations (ARF), a new cosmological observable built upon density-weighted two-dimensional (2D) maps of galaxy redshifts. start with an existing approach for galaxy/source counts developed in Newtonian gauge, and generalize it ARF, modifying this purpose standard Boltzmann code. Our calculations allow us identi...

The mouse p19(Arf) protein has both p53-dependent and p53-independent tumor-suppressive activities. Arf triggers sumoylation of many cellular proteins, including Mdm2 and nucleophosmin (NPM/B23), with which p19(Arf) physically interacts in vivo, and this occurs equally well in cells expressing or lacking functional p53. In an Arf-null NIH 3T3 cell derivative (MT-Arf cells) engineered to reexpre...

The ARF tumor suppressor regulates p53 as well as basic developmental processes independent of p53, including osteoclast activation, by controlling ribosomal biogenesis. Here we provide evidence that ARF is a master regulator of bone remodeling and osteosarcoma (OS) development in mice. Arf(-/-) mice displayed increased osteoblast (OB) and osteoclast (OC) activity with a significant net increas...

p14(ARF) is a putative tumor suppressor gene thought to modify the levels of p53. CpG sites within the 5'-flanking region and exon 1beta of p14(ARF) are targets of aberrant methylation and transcriptional silencing in human colorectal cancer (CRC). Here we have developed methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (MSPCR) methods to detect methylation of CpG sites in p14(ARF) in CRC cell lin...