WINNERS
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| Last Name | First Name | Country | Abstract Title |
| Banas | Bernhard | Germany | THE CHEMOKINE SLC/CCL21 AND ITS RECEPTOR CCR7 CONTROLS THE ADHESION OF HUMAN MESANGIAL CELLS TO SURROUNDING MATRIX |
| Campean | Valentina | Germany | INVOLVEMENT OF CD40-CD154 INTERACTION IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH END-STAGE RENAL FAILURE |
| Eremina | Vera | Canada | VEGF-A SIGNALING IN THE GLOMERULUS |
| Fernández-Martín | José Luis | Spain | MECHANISMS OF ALUMINUM-INDUCED PTH INHIBITION: ROLE OF THE CALCIUM-SENSING RECEPTOR |
| Frazao | Joao M. | Portugal | CINACALCET HCl EFFECTIVELY REDUCES INTACT PARATHYROID HORMONE (iPTH) AND Ca x P IRRESPECTIVE OF THE SEVERITY OF SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM (HPT) |
| Santamaria | Inigo | Spain | DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION PATTERNS OF DIFFUSE AND NODULAR REFRACTORY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM |
| Stevens | Paul | United Kingdom | THE BURDEN OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD) AND ITS ASSOCIATED COMORBIDITY IN THE GENERAL POPULATION: NEW DATA FROM THE NEOERICA PROJECT |
| Westenfeld | Ralf | Germany | THE IMPACT OF FETUIN-A, PHOSPHATE AND UREMIA ON THE INDUCTION OF EXTRAOSSEOUS CALCIFICATION IN MICE |
Eight Best Abstracts presented by young Authors |
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| Last Name | First Name | Country | Abstract Title |
| Banas | Bernhard | Germany | THE CHEMOKINE SLC/CCL21 AND ITS RECEPTOR CCR7 CONTROLS THE ADHESION OF HUMAN MESANGIAL CELLS TO SURROUNDING MATRIX |
| Boger | Carsten A. | Germany | CRP IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 2: A PREDICTOR FOR ALL CAUSE AND CARDIAC MORTALITY ONLY IN PATIENTS WITH FONTAINE STAGE IV PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE |
| Campean | Valentina | Germany | INVOLVEMENT OF CD40-CD154 INTERACTION IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH END-STAGE RENAL FAILURE |
| Clerbaux | Gaetan | Belgium | EVALUATION OF THE PERITONEAL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY AT PERITONEAL DIALYSIS (PD) ONSET AND LONGITUDINAL FOLLOW-UP |
| Eremina | Vera | Canada | VEGF-A SIGNALING IN THE GLOMERULUS |
| Lloberas | Nuria | Spain | THE ASSOCIATION OF RAPAMYCIN WITH FK506 OR CYCLOSPORINE INDUCE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL PATTERN OF NEPHROTOXICITY |
| Westenfeld | Ralf | Germany | THE IMPACT OF FETUIN-A, PHOSPHATE AND UREMIA ON THE INDUCTION OF EXTRAOSSEOUS CALCIFICATION IN MICE |
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Best Abstracts presented by young Authors |
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| Last Name | First Name | Country | Abstract Title |
| Atakan | Aydin | Turkey | RENAL PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKERS IN A RAT MODEL OF CYCLOSPORINE NEPHROTOXICITY |
| Bantis | Christos | Germany | INFLUENCE OF CYTOKINE GENE POLYMORPHISMS ON THE PROGRESSION OF FOCAL SEGMENTAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS |
| Bergamo | Daniela | Italy | VASCULAR 'OSSIFICATION' HAS THE SAME CHEMICAL COMPOSITION IN DIALYSED PATIENTS AS COMPARED TO NON-DIALYSED SUBJECTS |
| Bergmann | Carsten | Germany | AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (ARPKD) IN CHILDHOOD AND ADULTHOOD: LONG-TERM OUTCOME AND GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE CORRELATIONS IN 153 PATIENTS WITH PKHD1 MUTATION |
| Bevilaqua Rangel | Erika | Brazil | CLINICAL COMPLICATIONS AFTER SIMULTANEOUS PANCREAS-KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION |
| Boim | Mirian | Brazil | EVALUATION OF ELECTROLYTES AND WATER TRANSPORT MOLECULES IN THE DIABETIC KIDNEY |
| Byrne | Catherine | United Kingdom | THE CHARACTERISTICS AND SURVIVAL OF ETHNIC MINORITIES ACCEPTED ONTO RRT IN THE UK |
| Campbell | Gary | United Kingdom | ANALYSIS OF THE TRUE COST OF POTENTIAL LIVE KIDNEY DONOR INVESTIGATION |
| Chesterton | Lindsay | United Kingdom | REDUCED BAROREFLEX SENSITIVITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED VASCULAR CALCIFICATION AND ARTERIAL STIFFNESS |
| Doublier | Sophie | Italy | PLATELET-ACTIVATING FACTOR REDUCES NEPHRIN EXPRESSION IN HUMAN PODOCYTES |
| Echarri | Rocio | Spain | ANTIOXIDANT AND HYPOLIPEMIC PROPERTIES OF RED GRAPE JUICE IN UREMIA |
| Fernandes | Sandrine | France | LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF VASOPRESSIN ON REGULATORY PROTEINS OF THE EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL (ENaC) IN THE RAT KIDNEY |
| Franz | Stefan E. | Switzerland | HIGH PREVALENCE OF RENAL TUBULAR ACIDOSIS IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS BEYOND THE FIRST YEAR WITH GOOD RENAL FUNCTION |
| Gandolfo | Maria Teresa | Italy | EFFECTS OF ESTROGEN ON THE APOPTOSIS INDUCED BY TESTOSTERONE IN HUMAN RENAL TUBULAR CELLS |
| Gang | Sishir | India | DOES DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (DSE) OBVIATE THE NEED OF CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY (CA) IN TYPE II DIABETIC (DM) PATIENT BEING EVALUATED FOR RENAL TRANSPLANTATION? |
| Gigante | Maddalena | Italy | CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME: MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF NPHS1 AND NPHS2 GENES IN ITALIAN FAMILIES AND DETECTION OF NEW MUTATIONS |
| Gionanlis | Lazaros | Greece | PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS (RPGN) |
| Goettmann | Uwe | Germany | INFLUENCE OF DONOR PRE-TREATMENT WITH DOPAMINE ON SHORT- AND LONG-TERM OUTCOME AFTER PROLONGED COLD STORGE AND ALLOGENEIC KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION IN RATS |
| Gori | Elena | Italy | EFFECT OF FOLATE OR FOLATE PLUS VITAMINS B6 AND B12 ON HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA IN HEMODIALYZED PATIENTS: A 2-YEAR CONTROLLED RANDOMIZED STUDY |
| Hamano | Takayuki | Japan | THE SKELETAL SENSITIVITY OF PTH VIEWED FROM SERUM NTx AND ITS DEPENDENCY ON ESTRADIOL IN HEMODIALIZED PATIENTS |
| Herrero-Fresneda | Immaculada | Spain | GENE THERAPY WITH HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR ATTENUATES THE PROGRESSION OF CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY |
| Iyoda | Masayuki | Japan | HEMODIALYSIS CHANGES THE LEVELS OF CYTOKINES, IN ADDITION TO THE EXPRESSION OF COSTIMULATORY MOLECULES IN UREMIC PATIENTS |
| Jankowski | Vera | Germany | PLATELET-DERIVED DIADENOSINE POLYPHOSPHATES: POSSIBLE REASON OF THE INCREASE OF VASCULAR GROWTH IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS? |
| Joss | Nicola | United Kingdom | RANDOMISED STUDY COMPARING CYCLOSPORIN WITH AZATHIOPRINE ONE YEAR AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION - 15 YEAR OUTCOME |
| Kalousova | Marta | Czech Republic | INCREASED LEVELS OF PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A ARE ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY OF HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: RESULTS OF A PILOT STUDY |
| Koppelstaetter | Christian | Austria | TELOMERE LENGTH AS A NOVEL PREDICTOR OF DONOR ORGAN SURVIVAL IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION |
| Lee | Eun Kyoung | Korea | PREDICTION OF GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE (GFR) USING BIOIMPEDANCE ANALYSIS (BIA) |
| Menniti | Miranda | Italy | SGK AND HORMONAL REGULATION OF SODIUM ABSORPTION |
| Molnar | Gergo A. | Hungary | SIGNIFICANCE OF A SELECTIVE HYDROXYL FREE RADICAL MARKER, THE URINARY ORTHO-/PARA-TYROSINE QUOTIENT IN DIABETIC, DIABETIC-AZOTAEMIC AND NON-DIABETIC AZOTAEMIC PATIENTS |
| Nakagawa | Takahiko | United States | ROLE OF SMADS IN REGULATION OF PROANGIOGENIC AND ANTIANGIOGENIC FACTORS |
| Ostalska-Nowicka | Danuta | Poland | REORGANISATION OF PODOCYTE CYTOSKELETON IN PROTEINURIC AND STEROID-RESISTANT GLOMERULAR DISEASES IN CHILDREN: AN IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY APPROACH |
| Paydas | Saime | Turkey | DIPYRIDAMOLE FOR RENAL PHOSPHATE LEAK IN SUCCESSFUL RENAL TRANSPLANTED HYPOPHOSPHATEMIC PATIENTS |
| Pietrzyk | Miriam C. | Germany | QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRACTALKINE USING LASER MICRODISSECTION IN BIOPSIES FROM KIDNEY ALLOGRAFTS SHOWING SIGNS OF ACUTE REJECTION |
| Reinhold | Stephan W. | Germany | NEPHRON SPECIFIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE ENZYMES AND RECEPTORS OF THE LIPOXYGENASE / LEUKOTRIENE PATHWAY IN MICRODISSECTED RAT KIDNEYS |
| Rutkowski | Przemyslaw | Poland | 2PY - UREMIC TOXIN INVOLVED IN DNA REPAIR |
| Santamaria | Inigo | Spain | DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION PATTERNS OF DIFFUSE AND NODULAR REFRACTORY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM |
| Santos-Araujo | Carla | Portugal | OPPOSED EXPRESSION OF RENAL TYPE-A NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR IN THE REMNANT RENAL CORTEX AND MEDULLA OCCURS IN RELATION WITH CHANGES IN SYSTEMIC HEMODYNAMICS |
| Siddiqui | Samira | United Kingdom | EOSINOPHILIA - A NOVEL PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY IN ATHEROSCLEROTIC RENAL ARTERY DISEASE |
| Stompor | Tomasz | Poland | RENAL TRANSPLANTATION AMELIORATES THE PROGRESSION OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS AS MEASURED WITH AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY (AoPWV) IN ESRD PATIENTS |
| Strogoff de Matos | Jorge Paulo | Brazil | DUAL BLOCKADE OF THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM REDUCES PLASMA ALDOSTERONE, PROTEINURIA AND URINARY TGB-?1 IN TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENTS WITH NEPHROPATHY |
| Torres | D. | Italy | STEROIDS PLUS RAMIPRIL VERSUS RAMIPRIL ALONE IN THE TREATMENT OF IGA NEPHROPATHY: INTERIM ANALYSIS OF A PROSPECTIVE, CONTROLLED, RANDOMIZED, MULTICENTER TRIAL |
| Torun | Dilek | Turkey | HEPATIC SUBCAPSULAR STEATOSIS AS A COMPLICATION IN DIABETIC PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS ASSOCIATED WITH INTRAPERITONEAL INSULIN TREATMENT |
| Vaglio | Augusto | Italy | LONG-TERM CLINICAL RESULTS WITH LOW-DOSE INTERLEUKIN-2 AND INTERFERON-a IN 145 PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA |
| Vampa | Maria Luisa | United Kingdom | EFFECTS OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS ON NK CELLS |
| van Roeyen | Claudia | Germany | DIFFERENT BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR (PDGF)-B AND -D IN HUMAN MESANGIAL CELLS (HMC) |
| Wakahara | Shigeyuki | Japan | LOCAL EXPRESSION OF ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME AND THE HOMOLOGUE, ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME 2 IN HUMAN KIDNEY |
| Wali | Ravinder | United States | KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION IN SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE (DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY OF UREMIA), DEFINED BY LVEF OF [lt] THAN 40% IN PATIENTS WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASAE |
| Wornle | Markus | Germany | EFFECTS OF THE CHEMOKINES SLC/CCL21, RANTES/CCL5, Met-RANTES, IP-10/CXCL10 AND Mig/CXCL9 ON PROLIFERATION AND APOPTOSIS OF HUMAN MESANGIAL CELLS |
| Yilmaz | Rahmi | Turkey | CYTOKINE GENE POLYMORPHISMS AND PROGRESSION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: ONE YEAR FOLLOW UP |
| Zaniew | Marcin | Poland | INCREASED INTRACELLULAR OXIDATIVE STRESS IN T LYMPHOCYTES IN PATIENT WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE TREATED WITH DIALYSIS |
| Zucchi | Manuela | Italy | LONG-TERM TREATMENT OF HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA PREVENTS CAROTID ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN HAEMODIALYSED PATIENTS |