Uremic Toxins

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Parathyroid Hormone: A Uremic Toxin....Pages 1-17
Retention Patterns....Pages 19-26
Middle Molecules and the 7 C Factor....Pages 27-32
Middle Molecules as a Marker of Uremic Toxins....Pages 33-37
The Abiko Factor....Pages 39-46
Polyamines and Uremia....Pages 47-54
Roles of Hippurate and Indoxyl Sulfate in the Impaired Ligand Binding by Azotemic Plasma....Pages 55-58
Hippuric Acid as a Marker....Pages 59-67
Suppressive Effect of Quinolinic Acid and Hippuric Acid on Bone Marrow Erythroid Growth and Lymphocyte Blast Formation in Uremia....Pages 69-72
Purine Metabolites in Uraemia....Pages 73-80
The Role of Lipids in Progressive Glomerular Disease....Pages 81-87
Aluminum an Uremic Toxin....Pages 89-96
The Insulin-Resistance Inducing Factor Associated with Uremia....Pages 97-104
Pathogenesis and Consequences of the Alteration of Glucose Metabolism in Renal Insufficiency....Pages 105-109
Separation of Peptidic Inhibitor of Erythropoiesis in Uremia....Pages 111-114
Uremic Toxins Inhibit the Platelet Malonyldialdehyde Production Rate....Pages 115-118
A Possible Regulatory System of Microtubule Formation Among Uremic Toxins....Pages 119-123
Encephalopathic Toxicity: An Experimental Model of Uremia and Solute-Specific Dialysis....Pages 125-129
Intellectual Impairment in Chronic Renal Failure....Pages 131-134
The Fraction b 4-2: Isolation, Characterization and Biological Activities with Reference to Uremic Polyneuropathy....Pages 135-140
Intracellular Acid-Base and Energy Metabolism in Uremia: A Preliminary Study on Five Patients Before and During Dialysis Treatment....Pages 141-144
Is Selenium Deficiency the Cause of Uraemic Cardiomyopathy?....Pages 145-147
Does Hypermagnesemia Suppress Parathyroid Activity and Therefore Play a Role in Amelioration of Uremic Toxicity ?....Pages 149-152
Syntheses and Structure-Activity Relationships of Thymopoietin....Pages 153-155
The Immunosuppressive Fraction Isolated from Uremic Ultrafiltrates: Attempted Characterization of the Mechanism of Action....Pages 157-160
Isolation of an Immunosuppressive Fraction from Uremic Ultrafiltrates....Pages 161-164
Binding of Organic Acids to Surface Receptors of Lymphocytes as an Immunosuppressive Mechanism in Uremia....Pages 165-169
Uremic Dysmetabolism and Its Effect on Immunocompetent and Erythroid Cell Function....Pages 171-187
Conversion of Ammonia to Glutamate by L-Glutamic Dehydrogenase, Alcohol Dehydrogenase and NAD + Immobilized within Lipid-Polyamide Polyethyleneimine Microcapsules....Pages 189-192
A Purification Method by Uncoated Charcoal....Pages 193-196
Amino Acid Composition of Uremic Middle and Low Molecular Weight Retention Products....Pages 197-204
Biochemical Elucidation and HPLC Fractionation of Fluorescent Peptides in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure....Pages 205-213
Separation from Uremic Body Fluids and Normal Urine of Na + , K + -ATPase Inhibitor....Pages 215-218
Isolation of Sialylcompounds from Hemofiltrate of Chronic Uremic Patients and Identification by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance....Pages 219-222
Identification of Two Uremic Toxins by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry....Pages 223-226
Kinetics of Solute Removal in Hemodialysis....Pages 227-237
An Advanced, User-Friendly Microcomputer Program for Hemodialysis Kinetics....Pages 239-244
Is Serum Urea a Good Index for Predicting Morbidity in Hemodialysis (HD)?....Pages 245-247
Predicted Time of Dialysis in Patients with Different Volumes of Urea Distribution — The Use of Mathematical Model....Pages 249-252
Membranes and Their Removal of Uremic Toxins....Pages 253-262
Replacement of Excretory Kidney Function by High-Efficiency Hemodiafiltration (HDF) with a Peptide-Permeable Membrane....Pages 263-266
Paired Filtration-Dialysis (PFD): A Separate Convective-Diffusive System for Extracorporeal Blood Purification in Uraemic Patients....Pages 267-275
Removal of Small Proteins — The Stepchild of Dialysis Therapy Protein Permeability of Different Hemofiltration Membranes Analysed by SDS-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS-Page)....Pages 277-280
Hemofiltration-Induced Serum Modifications in the Pattern of Larger Molecules....Pages 281-286
Carnitine Depletion During Chronic Hemodialysis: Effect of Substitution on Free Carnitine Plasma Levels....Pages 287-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-296