Acute lung injury (ALI), which occurs in association with sepsis, trauma, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is a serious clinical condition with high mortality. Excessive platelet-leukocyte aggregate (PLA) formation promotes neutrophil extr...
Objective The objective of this study was to estimate the humoral immune response evaluated by immunoglobulin G (IgG) against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike receptor-binding domain (RBD-IgG) following the th...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 678 179-185 2023年8月
Extracellular histones induce endothelial damage, resulting in lung haemorrhage; however, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Factor XIII, as a Ca2+-dependent cross-linking enzyme in blood, mediates fibrin deposition. As another isozyme, tra...
BACKGROUND: Sodium zirconium cyclosilicate, a non-absorbed non-polymer zirconium silicate, is a new potassium binder for hyperkalemia. A previous report showed that administering sodium zirconium cyclosilicate to patients with hyperkalemia allows ...
Lupus nephritis (LN) is a life-threatening complication of systemic lupus erythematosus. The 2003 pathological classification of LN was revised in 2016; it quantitatively evaluates the interstitium in addition to the glomeruli. We performed a retr...
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2020年7月8日
BACKGROUND: The detection of leukocyte-derived CD11b (α subunit of integrin Mac-1) and CD163 (scavenger receptor) in urine may reflect renal inflammation in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated glomerulonephritis (ANCA-GN). The objective...