Background: Prolonged use of cyclosporine A for prevention of allograft rejection is associated with nephrotoxicity development. Naringenin and olive oil are beneficial dietary antioxidants with potential renoprotective properties. This study aimed to evaluate the therapeutic effect of naringenin and olive oil in alleviating cyclosporine induced nephrotoxicity in rats by the assessment of renal...

the relation between microchimerism and allograft tolerance is still a mystery. in this study we determined the presence of peripheral blood microchimerism (pbmc) in female renal transplant recipients from living male donors with second round polymerase chain reaction (pcr). second round pcr was used to find y chromocome products. the degree of pbmc in renal transplant recipinents must be below...

Introduction: Liver ischemia/reperfusion (IR) is a major clinical problem, which occurs during several conditions such as liver damage, trauma and transplantation. Recent studies indicate that IR-induced acute liver failure causes injuries of distant organs such as heart and lungs by systematic inflammatory responses. Therefore, in the present study, effects of hepatic IR induction were stud...

radionuclidic techniques may provide assessment of glomerular filtration rate (gfr) effective renal plasma flow (erpf) or individual renal function. several agents were available for determination of these parameters such as ¹³¹i-oih (o-iodohippurate) and different derivatives of dads (diamidodisulfur). oih has the disadvantage of imparting a relatively high absorbed radiation dose to the patie...

conclusions good knowledges for renal function remain a hallmark of daily practice of the anesthesiologist, considering renal function as an important determinant factor in anesthesia practice. context pre-existing renal dysfunction presents specific features that anesthesiologists must deal with. anesthesia and renal function are connected and can interfere with each other. induced hypotension...

introduction: it has been suggested that calculation of differential renal function (drf) using 99mtc-dmsa may lead to overestimation of the function of an obstructed kidney. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diuretic administration on the determination of drf using 99mtc-dmsa scintigraphy in patients with dilated pelvis. methods: thirty three patients, aged from 2 months to 6...

BACKGROUND The objective was to investigate the association between renal structural parameters and renal function. The structural parameters were renal cortical volume, total renal volume, number of glomeruli, and total glomerular volume, and renal function was expressed by the single kidney GFR (skGFR). Investigations were performed using both healthy and chronically diseased kidneys. We inve...

Radionuclidic techniques may provide assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) effective renal plasma flow (ERPF) or individual renal function. Several agents were available for determination of these parameters such as ¹³¹I-OIH (O-iodohippurate) and different derivatives of DADS (Diamidodisulfur). OIH has the disadvantage of imparting a relatively high absorbed radiation dose to the...