(a.) Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys.
(n.) An antinephritic remedy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, the enhanced RES activity with PGE1 can explain part of the antinephritic effect of PGE1.
(2) To clarify the antinephritic effects of ginsenosides, we investigated the effects of crude ginsenoside and ginsenosides Rg1 and Rb1 on original-type anti-GBM nephritis in rats.
(3) These results suggest that crude ginsenoside and Rg1 exert their antinephritic action via increased renal blood flow.
(4) We investigated the effects of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and dipyridamole on the disposal of macromolecules via mesangial channels to understand the antinephritic effect of PGE1.
(5) Using the modified model of Masugi's nephritis in rats, the antinephritic effects of sodium chondroitin sulfate (CS) and other drugs were evaluated by determining the biochemical parameters in urine, serum and renal cortex as well as light microscopic observation in kidneys by preventive and curative tests.
(6) These results suggest that the antinephritic effect of SA-446 may be related to the antihypertensive action and the increase in renal blood flow through activation of the kallikrein-kinin and prostaglandins systems.
(7) The antinephritic effects of PGE1, TEI-5178 and TEI-6122 on crescentic-type anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) nephritis in rats were investigated.
(8) It is considered that PGE1 could excert the antinephritic effect in this mode through decreasing the leukocyte counts in the circulation and the glomeruli independently of immune deposits in the glomeruli.
(9) These results suggest that pachyman was effective against original-type anti-GBM nephritis in rats and that the antinephritic mechanisms of pachyman may be partly due to the inhibitory action of this agent on C3 deposition in the glomeruli.
(10) The present study was conducted to investigate the antinephritic effects of berberine and coptisine, which are contained in Coptidis rhizoma, on original-type anti-GBM nephritis in rats.
(11) These results indicate that TJ-8014, like dipyridamole, has a beneficial effect on original-type anti-GBM nephritis in rats and the antinephritic action of TJ-8014 may be partly due to the antiplatelet action of this agent.
(12) The antinephritic effect of pachyman on original-type anti-GBM nephritis in rats was investigated.
(13) The antinephritic effect of drugs was evaluated through determination of biochemical parameters such as contents of protein and enzymes excreted into the urine and serum cholesterol content by the preadministration and intermittent administration tests.
(14) The relationship between the antinephritic effect and these subsequent findings will be discussed.
(15) We investigated the antinephritic effects of TJ-8014, in comparison to dipyridamole, on crescentic-type anti-GBM nephritis in rats.
(16) These results indicate that the antinephritic effects of berberine and coptisine may be partly due to antiplatelet action and improved renal hemodynamics via changing prostanoid synthesis.
(17) These results indicate that OB-5 was effective in crescentic-type anti-GBM nephritis and the antinephritic mechanisms of this agent may be due to its ability to inhibit the proliferation or the migration of macrophages and cytotoxic T lymphocytes in the glomeruli.
(18) In order to investigate the antinephritic effect of Y-19018, a thromboxane A synthetase inhibitor, on crescentic-type anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) nephritis in rats, the present study was undertaken.
(19) In this study, we investigated the antinephritic effects of TJ-8014 and crude drugs in TJ-8014, in comparison to dipyridamole, on original-type anti-GBM nephritis in rats.
(20) In order to clarify the antinephritic mechanisms of ginsenosides on this model, we investigated the effect of ginsenosides on platelet aggregation and renal blood flow.
Kidney
Definition:
(n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
(n.) Habit; disposition; sort; kind.
(n.) A waiter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(2) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(3) In kidney, both age groups responded with an increase in activity.
(4) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(5) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
(6) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(7) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(8) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
(9) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(10) To identify the NHE-1 protein and to establish its cellular and subcellular localization in the rabbit kidney, we prepared antibodies to a NHE-1 fusion protein.
(11) The kidney disease was characterized by diffuse beaded deposition of rat gammaglobulin along the glomerular capillaries and proteinuria.
(12) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(13) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(14) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(15) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(16) A study of the time-course of the response during aortic stenosis of 30 min duration showed early release of renin from the innervated kidney at a time (5 min) when little release occurred from the denervated one.
(17) Rates of PC in vitro metabolism by liver and kidney cytosolic cysteine conjugate beta-lyases (beta-lyases) were similar, but metabolism by renal mitochondrial beta-lyase occurred at a 3-fold higher rate than the rate obtained with hepatic mitochondrial beta-lyase.
(18) In the kidneys the index of incorporation inthe epithelial cells of the renal cortex was 7.5-fold and in the brain cortex epithelium 15-fold as increased, respectively.
(19) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.
(20) The relative contributions of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression to the increase in constitutively expressed cellular proteins were examined in mouse kidneys undergoing compensatory growth following unilateral nephrectomy (UNI-NX).