Cellular stress responses in renal diseases. (Contributions to nephrology; v.148) by Ed. by Mohammed S. Razzaque and Takashi Taguchi - 2005

S. Karger, AG, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This collection of ten articles by international experts presents an overview of contemporary thoughts on the clinical significance of stress responses following renal injury, with chapters arranged to provide the reader significant and up-to-date information on the involvement of heat shock proteins (HSPs) in acute and chronic renal diseases. Article topics include an overview of the involvement of stress proteins in renal diseases and the relationship to glomerular epithelial cell injury, responses of renal medullary cells to osmotic stress, heat shock proteins in renal cell carcinomas, heat shock protein 47 and renal fibrogenesis, cytoprotective effects of heme oxygenase in acute renal failure, cisplatin-associated nephrotoxicity and pathological events, heat shock proteins and allograft rejection, and oxidant stress in renal pathophysiology. (2005 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)