POSTER SESSION III Tuesday, March 9, 2004   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Exhibit Hall B and C KIDNEY PATHOLOGY 133 High Incidence of C4d Positive Humoral Rejection in Renal Transplant Patients Treated with FTY720 (1220) T Nadasdy, GM Nadasdy, D Proca, K Yearsley, RM Ferguson - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 134 Infiltrating Cell Types in Transplant Glomerulitis (TG): Relationship to Peritubular Capillary (PTC) C4d Deposition (1218) AB Magil - St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada 135 C4d Antibody Staining in Renal Transplant Patients with Thrombotic Microangiopathy (1223) V Shah, M Lee, O Saglam, R Parsuraman - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 136 C4D Antibody Staining in Non-Transplant Kidneys with Immune Complex Mediated Glomerulonephritis (1224) V Shah, M Lee, A Patel - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 137 Detection of Polyoma Virus Infection in Renal Allograft Biopsies Prior to 2000 (1215) M Lewin, DJ Lager, PA Kay - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 138 Screening Kidney Transplant Recipients for Polyomavirus Reactivation: Urine Cytology vs Quantitative PCR (1221) PS Randhawa, A Ho, J Uhrmacher, K Weck - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 139 Antibody-Mediated Late Acute Renal Transplant Rejection (1206) A Hever, AH Cohen, CC Nast - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 140 Heterogenous Signaling of Hypertonic Stress-Induced Osmolyte Response in Kidney Cells (1235) L Zhang, GW Moeckel - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 141 Calcium Oxalate Crystal (Ca Ox) Deposition in Renal Transplants (Tx). Morphologic Spectrum and Clinical Implications (1231) LD Truong, U Yakupoglu, D Feig, J Hicks, J Cartwight, WN Suki - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; The Kidney Institute of Houston, Houston, TX 142 Oncofetal Fibronectin in Chronic Renal Transplant Rejection (1226) I Siddiqui, ZA Khan, M Moussa, B Garcia, R Zhong, S Chakrabarti - University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada 143 Attenuation of Apoptotic Events Related to Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in a hDAF Pig-to-Primate Xenotransplation Model (1195) F Calabrese, M Seveso, M Boldrin, P Rigotti, E Cozzi, FH Bach, E Ancona, M Valente, G Thiene - University of Padua and CORIT, Padua, Italy; Harvard Medical Scghool, Boston, MA 144 Serum Creatinine Is a Poor Predictor of Chronic Histopathological Changes on Transplant Protocol Biopsies (TPB) (1191) M Afrouzian, S Yilmaz, K McLaughlin, FM Monroy-Cuadros, S Seminowich, J Gough, K Trpkov, A Salazar, H Benediktsson - University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada 145 Glomerular Expression of Alpha-Smooth Muscle Actin in Allograft Glomerulopathy (1208) AN Kalof, BR MacPherson - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 146 Lipopolysaccharide Increases Expression of Gb3 (Shiga Toxin Receptor), Promoting Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (1198) F Clayton, TJ Pysher, DE Kohan, VL Tesh, FB Taylor, R Lou, RL Siegler - Salt Lake VA, University of Utah, and Primary Childrens Medical Centers, Salt Lake City, UT; Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 147 Thrombomodulin (TM)and Endothelial Cell Protein C Receptor (EPCR) Are Up Regulated in Ischemia/Reperfusion (I/R)-Induced Acute Renal Failure in Rat Kidneys (1213) ZG Laszik, FG Silva, DJ Brackett, M Lerner, CT Esmon - University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Augusta, GA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 148 Histidine Decarboxylase Expression Is Upregulated in the Kidney of the Pregnant Mouse: Implications for Renal Blood Flow and Hypervolemia of Pregnancy (1219) T Morgan, M van de Rijn, J Higgins - Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 149 "Nuclear Pore" Glomerulopathy: A Clinicopathological Study (1192) M Barry, HG Rennke - Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 150 Diagnostic Value of Neutrophilic Glomerular Infiltrates in Acute Postinfectious and Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (1194) SM Bonsib - Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN 151 Isometric Tubular Epithelial Vacuolization in Renal Allograft Biopsies of Patients Receiving Intravenous Immunoglobulin (1203) M Haas, JS Cicone, H Rabb, RA Montgomery, CJ Sonnenday - Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 152 Immune Complex Deposits in ANCA-Associated Crescentic Glomerulonephritis: A Study of 126 Cases 1202 M Haas, JA Eustace - Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 153 Immunohistochemical Assesment of Myeloperoxidase (MPO) To Quantify Inflammatory Activity in Lupus Nephritis (1212) J Kowalewska, CE Alpers, KD Smith - University of Washington, Seattle, WA 154 Evidence for Divergent Phenotypic Transformation in Human Mesangial Cells Following Light Chain Injury (1209) J Keeling, L Joseph, B Barlogie, L Truong, GA Herrera - LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 155 Light Chain (LC) Mediated Acute Tubular Interstitial Nephritis (TIN): A Poorly Recognized Pattern of Renal Disease in Patients with Plasma Cell Dyscrasias (PCD) (1204) GA Herrera, X Gu, L Joseph - LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 156 Correlation of the Columbia Pathologic Classification of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) with Clinical Phenotype and Outcome (1230) DB Thomas, N Franceschini, SL Hogan, CE Jennette, RJ Falk, JC Jennette - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 157 Characterization of Glomerulosclerosis in ACE2 Knockout (KO) Mice (1205) AM Herzenberg, GY Oudit, JM Penninger, JW Scholey - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 158 Proteomic Patterns as Predictors of Glomerulosclerosis (1233) BJ Xu, L-J Ma, E Donnert, Y Shyr, RM Caprioli, AB Fogo - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 159 Absence of Integrin V6 Decreases Interstitial Fibrosis but Worsens Glomerulosclerosis in Remnant Kidney Mice (1234) H-C Yang, L-J Ma, D Sheppard, A Fogo - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; University of California, San Francisco, CA 160 Expression of Endothelin-1 in Patients with Refractory Hypertension Undergoing Bilateral Laparascopic Nephrectomy (1214) S Latif, F Zaman, GB Zibari, ML Jones, GA Herrera - Louisiana State University Health Science Centre, Shreveport, LA 161 BMP7 Transcription Is Decreased in Human Kidney Disease (1228) AA Suarez, S Matthew, K Hruska, H Liapis - Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 162 Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor-1 (FGF-1) and Its Receptor (FGFR-1) in Renal Disease (1197) B Cheunsuchon, E Donnert, LJ Ma, JW Thomas, EG Neilson, AB Fogo - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 163 Clinicopathological and Immunohistochemical Characteristics of Renal Sarcoidosis: A Study of 38 Cases (1227) HK Singh, SV Seshan, K Wilson, E Hyjek, V Nickeleit - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 164 Fabry Disease: A Morphologic Study of 11 Cases (1201) EG Fischer, MJ Moore, DJ Lager - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 165 Incidental Discovery of Neoplastic Lesions on Medical Renal Biopsy (1193) JM Bell, R Nair, SM Bonsib, PD Walker - Nephropathology Associates, Little Rock, AR; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN