Raimund Hirschberg, MD

Professor of Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute Harbor
UCLA Medical Center

websitehttp://www.harboruclamed.com/Faculty/Hirchberg.html

Topic:

"BMP7 in Diabetic Nephropathy"

When:

Monday, March 2, 2009
12:00PM – 1:00PM
 

Location:

Conference Room 3-015, Ward Building

Hosted by Dr. Yashpal Kanwar

Hirschberg R, Bennett W, Scheinman J, Coppo R, Ponticelli C. Acute kidney injury due to deferoxamine in a renal transplant patient. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2008 Aug;23(8):2704-5; author reply 2705. Epub 2008 May 30.

Mitu G, Hirschberg R. Bone morphogenetic protein-7 (BMP7) in chronic kidney disease. Front Biosci. 2008 May 1;13:4726-39. Review.

Wang S, Mitu GM, Hirschberg R.Osmotic polyuria: an overlooked mechanism in diabetic nephropathy. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2008 Jul;23(7):2167-72. Epub 2008 May 2. Review.

Hirschberg R, Wang S, Mitu GM.Functional symbiosis between endothelium and epithelial cells in glomeruli. Cell Tissue Res. 2008 Feb;331(2):485-93. Epub 2007 Nov 13.

Mitu GM, Wang S, Hirschberg R. BMP7 is a podocyte survival factor and rescues podocytes from diabetic injury. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2007 Nov;293(5):F1641-8. Epub 2007 Sep 5.