Growing Old with HIV
Epigenetics and Hypertension
Obesity and the Kidney
The Rapidly Evolving Research o ...
With ongoing improvement in antiretroviral therapy, mortality among HIV-infected persons has dramatically decreased. For HIV-infected persons who re ...
Growing Old with HIV
The intersection of chronic HIV infection, its treatment, and lifestyle with aging has become a topic of considerable fascination during this, the t ...
Comprehensive Approaches to the ...
For every two people starting on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), five become infected with HIV. Current prevention strategies are inadequ ...
When to Start Antiretroviral Th ...
Antiretrovirals perform superbly in combating HIV infection. But when to initiate therapy in asymptomatic, nonpregnant, hepatitis-free, HIV-infected ...
2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1 ...
The 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) was responsible for the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century. The virus— a previously unknown triplerea ...
Posttransplant Lymphoproliferat ...
Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) are a life-threatening complication following solid organ transplantation. Many posttransplant l ...
Current Views on the Pathophysi ...
GB virus C (GBV-C), a member of the Flaviviridae family of viruses, recently received considerable attention largely owing to its potential role in ...
Update on Strongyloidiasis in t ...
Immunocompromised persons are the most vulnerable population at risk for developing life-threatening clinical syndromes associated with strongyloidi ...
Current Concepts of the Intesti ...
The human gastrointestinal tract is populated by a vast and diverse community of microbes. This gut microbiota participates in host metabolism, prot ...
Current Status of Nonantibiotic ...
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a leading cause of nosocomial infections and the most important cause of health care-associated diarrhea wo ...
Probiotics and Prebiotics for t ...
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in premature infants. Although the pathogenesis of NEC rema ...
Manifestations of HIV in the He ...
The worldwide incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is increasing. The head and neck is a primary site for numerous manifestations of HIV ...
Novel Approaches to Oral Immuni ...
Hepatitis B is a necroinflammatory liver disease manifested with subacute to acute symptoms, liver cirrhosis, and mortality. Parenteral alum-adsorbe ...
Endothelial Damage and Regenera ...
The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is part of the blood pressure regulating system. Its main effector peptide is angiotensin II (Ang II ...
Renin and Prorenin Receptor in ...
The (pro)renin receptor, PRR, was initially characterized as a component of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). PRR-bound renin and prorenin display ...
Dual-Acting Angiotensin Recepto ...
Lowering blood pressure by pharmacologic intervention reduces the incidence of cardiovascular events. Nevertheless, despite the widespread availabil ...
The DASH Diet and Insulin Sensi ...
Lifestyle modifications, including adoption of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern, weight loss in individuals who ar ...
Metabolic Syndrome: From the Ge ...
The metabolic syndrome (MS) constitutes a combination of underlying risk factors for an adverse outcome, cardiovascular disease. Thus, the clinical ...
Genetics of Salt-Sensitive Hype ...
The assessment of salt sensitivity of blood pressure is difficult because of the lack of universal consensus on definition. Regardless of the variab ...
Genetics of Hypertension and Ca ...
Blood pressure (BP), hypertension (HT) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are common complex phenotypes, which are affected by multiple genetic and en ...
Catecholamine Storage Vesicles: ...
Hypertension is a complex trait with deranged autonomic control of the circulation. The sympathoadrenal system exerts minute-to-minute control over ...
Dietary Fructose and Hypertensi ...
The association between fructose and increased blood pressure is still incompletely defined, because experimental studies have produced dissimilar c ...
Epigenetics and Hypertension
Epigenetics refers to mechanisms for environment– gene interactions (mainly by methylation of DNA and modification of histones) that do not alter th ...
Endogenous Ouabain: A Link Betw ...
The sodium pump, an ancestral enzyme with conserved ability to bind ouabain, plays a key role in salt conservation and is regulated by aldosterone a ...
Obesity and the Kidney
Background and objectives Obesity-related glomerulopathy (ORG) is an increasing cause of end-stage renal disease, but evidence concerning the effect ...