PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 25   —  1:00 PM   —  Maryland Suite


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Section H - KIDNEY PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Shane Meehan and Ginette Lajoie-Starkell



1:00 Incidental, Healed Post-Infectious Glomerulonephritis (GN). A Study of 1012 Renal Biopsies Examined by Electron Microscopy (EM) (1215)
M Haas
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
1:15 Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha (TNF) Enhances Induction of Glomerulonephritis in Mice by Myeloperoxidase-Specific Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibodies (MPO-ANCA) IgG (1217)
JC Jennette, H Xiao, P Heeringa, P Hu, Z Liu, R Falk
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; University Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
1:30 Regression of Existing Glomerulosclerosis by Inhibition of Aldosterone (1210)
J Aldigier, L-J Ma, T Kanjanabuch, NJ Brown, AB Fogo
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
1:45 Glomerulopathic Light Chains Compete for the Same Receptor on Mesangial Cells (1228)
J Teng, ML Jones, GA Herrera
LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA
2:00 Preconditioning Protects Kidney from Ischemic Acute Tubular Necrosis through Attenuation of Tubular Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis (1226)
JA Saikali, CC Tsao, G Yang, WN Suki, LD Truong
The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2:15 Gene Expression in the Normal Adult Human Kidney Assessed by Complementary DNA Microarray (1216)
JP Higgins, L Wang, N Kambham, K Montgomery, S Vogelmann, K Lemley, JR Pollack, M van de Rijn, JD Brooks
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2:30 Altered Gene Transcript Profiles in Congenitally Obstructed Human Kidneys (1227)
AA Suarez, GF Steinhardt, H Liapis
Washington University, Saint Louis, MO; Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO
2:45 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION IV - Exhibit Hall A - C
4:00 BUSINESS MEETING - MARRIOTT BALLROOM
4:35 AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Stowell-Orbison, Autopsy, Castleman and Vogel Awards
Distinguished Pathologist Award - Richard Kempson
F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award - Elaine S. Jaffe
President's Award - Kamal Ishak
Young Investigator Award - Julia A. Bridge
5:00 MAUDE ABBOTT LECTURE - James R. Downing
Oncogenic Transcription Factors in Acute Leukemia
5:50 WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION - MARRIOTT BALLROOM FOYER