POSTER SESSION III Tuesday, March 1, 2005   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B KIDNEY PATHOLOGY 117 Screening and Diagnosis of Polyomavirus Allograft Nephropathy. Comparative Value of Urine Cytology (UC), Urine Pcr (UPCR) and Viremia (VLB) (1233) CB Drachenberg, JC Papadimitriou, C Crowder, A Berry, O Ioffe, CC Sun - University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 118 Detection of BK Virus in Laser Capture Microdissected Kidney Biopsies Using Real Time PCR (1224) OA Adeyi, DR Belloni, SD Dufresne, AR Schned, GJ Tsongalis - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 119 Clinical Correlation of BKV Viral Load with BKV Nephropathy in Renal Transplant Patients (1248) R Siddiqui, C Dumur, A King, B Siddiqui, D Massey, M Posner, DS Wilkinson, CT Garrett, A Ferreirra-Gonzalez - Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA; VCU, Richmond, VA; VCU, Richmond, VA; Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan 120 BK Polyoma Virus in Renal Transplants. Role of Electron Microscopy and Immunostains in Detecting Early Infection (1251) R Veeramachaneni, L Jones, GA Herrera - Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 121 Acute Renal Rejection Predominated by Monocytes Is a Severe Form of Rejection in Human Recipients with or without Campath-1H (Alemtuzumab) Induction Therapy (1257) PL Zhang, F Lin, JW Prichard, SK Malek, TM Yahya, MS Schwartzman, ER Norfolk, RE Brown, JE Hartle, S Potdar - Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA 122 CD20+ Lymphocytic Aggregates in Biopsies for Acute Rejection Are Not Associated with Increased Renal Allograft Loss in Adults (1229) HP Cathro, JD Cramer, RB Isaacs - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 123 C4d and the Renal Allograft Biopsy: A Different Perspective (1226) JM Bell, R Nair, PD Walker - Nephropathology Associates, Little Rock, AR 124 Quantitative Assessment of Glomerular Infiltrates in Chronic Allograft Glomerulopathy (1227) D Berhane, RB Mannon, SJ Swanson, DA Hale, AD Kirk, DE Kleiner - Howard University, Washington, DC; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD; National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 125 Cholesterol Embolization in Renal Allografts: A Clinicopathologic Study of 12 Cases (1241) CK Lai, RS Randhawa - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 126 Subclassification of Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) (1255) YA Yeh, JM Pullman - Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 127 Renal Injury in the Subtotal Nephrectomy Model (5/6 Nx) in the Mouse Is Ameliorated by Angiotensin Receptor Blockade (1236) J-Y Han, JC Aldigier, L-J Ma, AB Fogo - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 128 Absence of Integrin ß6 Worsens Glomerulosclerosis in Remnant Kidney by Modulating Tubuloglomerular Feedback (1253) H-C Yang, L-J Ma, AB Fogo - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Huashan hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 129 Overexpression of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor –1 (PAI-1) Potentiates the Response of Glomerular Endothelial Cells (GEN) to High Glucose (1243) XB Liang, M Madaio, RD Gerard, AB Fogo, L-J Ma - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 130 Spironolactone Ameliorates Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Accumulation in Unilateral Ureteral Obstruction (UUO) by Downregulation of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1(PAI-1) (1249) PR Tennant, L-J Ma, AB Fogo - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 131 Morphological Spectrum of Light Chain Deposition Disease of the Kidney in 45 Patients. Experience in a Multiple Myeloma Center (1234) N Gokden - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 132 Matrix Composition Alters Matrix Metalloproteinase Expression in Mesangial Cells Incubated with Glomerulopathic Light Chains (1238) J Keeling, GA Herrera - LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 133 Differences in Colocalization of IgA and Complement C3 in the Immune Complexes (IC) of Renal Biopsies from IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) Patients with Mild and Severe Renal Tissue Injury (1246) L Novak, J Novak, Z Vernerova, I Rychlik, J Stejskal, WJ Cook, KT Keyser, J Mestecky, BA Julian - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 134 A Clinicopathologic Study of Thrombotic Microangiopathy in the Setting of IgA Nephropathy (1230) A Chang, J Kowalewska, KD Smith, RF Nicosia, CE Alpers - University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 135 Heterozygous Mice for TGF-ßIIR Gene Are Resistant to the Progression of Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Nephropathy (1239) HW Kim, HS Lee - College of Medicine Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea; College of Medicine Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 136 Granulomatous Interstitial Nephritis: Analysis of 46 Cases in Single Institution (1228) V Bijol, V Nosé, HG Rennke - Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 137 Interstitial Nephritis in HIV Patients Is Associated with an Increased Density of Lymphatic Vessels (1240) LP Kiss, SV Seshan - Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 138 Renal Tubulo-Interstitial Changes Following Internal Irradiation with Alpha Particle Emitting Actinium-225 Daughters (1247) SV Seshan, JS Jaggi, MR McDevitt, DA Scheinberg - Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 139 COX2-Dependent Osmolyte Accumulation and Gene Expression in Medullary Interstitial Cells (1256) L Zhang, GW Moeckel - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 140 Glomerular Number and Size in Rats of the Milan Hypertensive and Normotensive Strains (1244) S Menini, C Ricci, C Iacobini, G Bianchi, G Pugliese, C Pesce - University of Genoa Medical School, Genoa, Italy; "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy; Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy; "Vita e Salute" University, Milan, Italy