(n.) A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.
Example Sentences:
(1) From a practical point of view, it appears that patients forming anti-GBM antibodies may not be good candidates for renal transplantation since they are likely to produce in the transplants the nephritic changes already suffered by their own kidneys.
(2) Autoantibodies which interfere with the function of enzyme cascade systems have also been described in diseases such as acquired haemophilia (anti-factor VIII antibodies) and glomerulonephritis (C3 nephritic factor).
(3) The serum of both patients contained detectable amounts of C3NeF, a factor which has been shown to react with a cofactor found in normal serum to form an enzyme, designated C3 lytic nephritic factor (C3LyNeF), which will cleave C3 to form the breakdown products, beta1A and alpha 2D.
(4) This nephritic factor was found in patients with reduced serum levels of terminal components and its activity, like that of the nephritic factor in MPGN type II, correlated with the serum C3 level indicating that these nephritic factors play a large role in producing hypocomplementemia.
(5) Public Law 92-603 is a mandata from the public for physicians to exercise every avenue of diagnosis and salvage for the nephritic patient.
(6) Dextran sieving studies were performed before and after intravenous administration of indomethacin to control rats and to nephritic rats with heavy proteinuria.
(7) Complement-independent binding of C3 nephritic factor (NEF) to sheep erythrocytes was observed in heat-inactivated sera from patients having this autoantibody.
(8) Phenotypes were quantitatively evaluated in 221 nephritic and 32 control glomeruli.
(9) It was previously shown that when normal human serum and purified properdin or serum containing nephritic factor were allowed to diffuse toward each other in agar, a stainable precipitin line formed only in the presence of an intact alternative pathway.
(10) Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis was found in 60% of patients with acute nephritic syndrome.
(11) Meanwhile in the inactive nephritic pattern and in the nephrotic pattern, a corticoid-sensitive one, characterized by the phasic course, CRF could not almost be seen over up to 20 years after the disease onset.
(12) A case of partial lipodystrophy with C3 nephritic factor was found to be associated with mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis although all clinical parameters of renal function were normal.
(13) In control nephritic animals, urinary i-TXB2 increased 5-fold on day +1, but was normal again by day +5.
(14) Serum levels of complement components and of C3 nephritic factor (C3NeF) were measured serially in two patients with membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis who were subjected to bilateral nephrectomy and maintained by peritoneal dialysis for 2 wk before renal transplantation.
(15) The results of adoptive cell migration studies suggest that a subpopulation of T cells in nephritic animals traffic renotropically to either normal or damaged kidneys on transfer.
(16) Levels of components of the classical and alternative complement pathways and the activity of the C3 nephritic factor (C3NeF) were measured in serum specimens from patients with type I (subendothelial deposits) and type II (intramembranous dense deposits) membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) and the results compared with the levels in normal subjects.
(17) Sedentary nephritic rats that received the same treatment described above served as controls.
(18) In 3 patients tested, the C3 nephritic factor-like activity was heat-labile and was therefore not related to true C3 nephritic factor.
(19) For the two-sample case, data from a prognostic study of the renal function of 87 lupus nephritic patients are used.
(20) In detail 5 types of clinical course are characterized: Nephritic types of course: maximally active nephritic type of course, active nephritic type of course, inactive nephritic type of course.
Nephritis
Definition:
(n.) An inflammation of the kidneys.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
(2) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
(3) A prospective study was carried out in 25 patients with systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE) on the effect of normalizing serum complement (CH50) and anti-DNA antibodies on the course of lupus nephritis.
(4) These results have important implications for the understanding of renal interstitial autoimmune diseases as well as the interstitial nephritis that occurs in response to foreign Ag.
(5) Clinical history was negative for intake of drugs capable of inducing acute interstitial nephritis.
(6) Glomerulonephritis largely occurred independently of interstitial nephritis.
(7) All but 1 of 100 cases macroscopically identified as nephritis and studied histologically proved to be of interstitial type in which lymphocytic infiltration predominated.
(8) A 34 year old white male patient suffering from seropositive "probable" rheumatoid arthritis developed a severe hypocomplementemic mesangiocapillary glomerulo-nephritis.
(9) Interstitial mononuclear cell infiltration in rats during the development of autoimmune Heymann nephritis (HN) was studied using the fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) technique.
(10) Glomerular macrophages and mesangial cells cultured from MRL-lpr mice with nephritis both secrete IL-1.
(11) The evolution of Lupus Nephritis to end-stage chronic renal failure is a frequent event.
(12) Seven renal biopsies from the six patients showed severe acute interstitial nephritis with mononuclear cellular infiltration and distal tubular damage.
(13) Based on the above findings, fibronectin in the GBM of rats with Heymann nephritis may reasonably be concluded to originate from the plasma.
(14) Immunological functions were investigated in 10 children with acute rheumatic fever and 11 children with acute nephritis to try and elucidate the cause of heart damage in acute rheumatic fever.
(15) A case of aggressive lupus nephritis in a pediatric renal transplant patient is described.
(16) The observation of enzymuria seemed to be important to diagnosis and follow-up of the interstitial nephritis.
(17) Idiotypes (Id) of human anti-DNA antibodies, designated as O-81 Id, were specifically detected on the immune deposits of renal glomeruli in 46% of patients with lupus nephritis.
(18) Renal biopsy revealed interstitial nephritis with granular deposition of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and C3 in the renal tubular basement membrane (TBM).
(19) Serum C4 and C3 concentration and binding of double-stranded-DNA (ds-DNA) were measured in sera from ninety-nine patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and clinical evidence of nephritis.
(20) In the group of nephritis, patients with renal failure and chronic nephritis showed evidently lower DI than those without renal failure but acute nephritis; increased L were also noted in association with renal failure.