Table of Contents
PREFACE ix
CONTRIBUTORS xi
SECTION 1: UREMIC TOXINS 1
1. Uremic Toxins: An Integrated Overview of Definition and Classification 3 Richard J. Glassock and Shaul G. Massry
2. Classification and a List of Uremic Toxins 13 Nathalie Neirynck, Rita De Smet, Eva Schepers, Raymond Vanholder, and Griet Glorieux
3. Analysis of Uremic Toxins with Mass Spectrometry 35 Toshimitsu Niwa
SECTION 2: SELECTED UREMIC TOXINS 51
4. Indoxyl Sulfate 53 Toshimitsu Niwa
5. p-Cresyl Sulfate 77 Anneleen Pletinck, Raymond Vanholder, and Griet Glorieux
6. 3-Carboxy-4-methyl-5-propyl-2-furanpropionic Acid 87 Toshimitsu Niwa
7. Phenylacetic Acid 99 Anna Schulz and Joachim Jankowski
8. Homocysteine and Hydrogen Sulfide, Two Opposing Aspects in the Pathobiology of Sulfur Compounds in Chronic Renal Failure 109 Alessandra F. Perna and Diego Ingrosso
9. Guanidino Compounds 125 Sunny Eloot, Griet Glorieux, Peter Paul De Deyn, and Raymond Vanholder
10. Asymmetric Dimethylarginine 143 Vladimír Teplan and Jaroslav Racek
11. Nicotinamide Metabolites 163 Boleslaw Rutkowski and Przemyslaw Rutkowski
12. Dicarbonyls (Glyoxal, Methylglyoxal, and 3-Deoxyglucosone) 177 Naila Rabbani and Paul J. Thornalley
13. Glucose Degradation Products in Peritoneal Dialysis 193 Monika Pischetsrieder and Sabrina Gensberger
14. Dinucleoside Polyphosphates 209 Joachim Jankowski and Vera Jankowski
15. Parathyroid Hormone 227 Shaul G. Massry and Miroslaw Smogorzewski
16. b2-Microglobulin 249 Suguru Yamamoto, Junichiro James Kazama, Hiroki Maruyama, Ichiei Narita, and Fumitake Gejyo
17. Cytokines 259 Bjorn Anderstam, Bengt Lindholm, and Peter Stenvinkel
18. Free Immunoglobulin Light Chains 279 Gerald Cohen and Walter H. Horl
19. Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs) 293 Naila Rabbani and Paul J. Thornalley
20. Oxidized Albumin 305 Maurizio Bruschi, Giovanni Candiano, Laura Santucci, and Gian Marco Ghiggeri
SECTION 3: THERAPEUTIC REMOVAL OF UREMIC TOXINS 315
21. Therapeutic Removal of Uremic Toxins by Hemodialysis 317 Tammy L. Sirich, Pavel Aronov, and Timothy W. Meyer
22. Therapeutic Removal of Uremic Toxins by Peritoneal Dialysis 331 Malgorzata Debowska, Elvia García-Lopez, Jacek Waniewski, and Bengt Lindholm
23. Therapeutic Removal of Uremic Toxins by Oral Sorbent 359 Toshimitsu Niwa
INDEX 373
