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Conflict Of Interests Driven By Pharmaceutical Incentivisation: Risks To The Medical Fraternity In Pakistan, Muhammad Naveed Noor, Afifah Rahman Shepherd, Amna Rehana Siddiqui Oct 2023

Conflict Of Interests Driven By Pharmaceutical Incentivisation: Risks To The Medical Fraternity In Pakistan, Muhammad Naveed Noor, Afifah Rahman Shepherd, Amna Rehana Siddiqui

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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Rare Autoimmune Disease Caused By Not-So Rare Virus, Tiffany Marchewka, Acho Bernard, Molly Kempa, Kathryn Heal, Joseph M. Fullmer May 2023

Rare Autoimmune Disease Caused By Not-So Rare Virus, Tiffany Marchewka, Acho Bernard, Molly Kempa, Kathryn Heal, Joseph M. Fullmer

Conference Presentation Abstracts

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Ultrastructural Findings Of Budding Ballooning Clusters Are Best Correlated With Punctate Autoimmune Antibodies Seen By Immunofluorescence In Minimal Change Disease, Vasudevan Mahalingam, Seyedalireza Fatemi, Wei Li, Hassan Kanaan, Ping Zhang Mar 2023

Ultrastructural Findings Of Budding Ballooning Clusters Are Best Correlated With Punctate Autoimmune Antibodies Seen By Immunofluorescence In Minimal Change Disease, Vasudevan Mahalingam, Seyedalireza Fatemi, Wei Li, Hassan Kanaan, Ping Zhang

Conference Presentation Abstracts

Background: The etiology of minimal change disease (MCD) remains a mystery as the only hallmark findings are the diffuse effacement of foot processes by electron microscopy (EM). Punctate IgG staining floating outside of glomerular capillary loops have recently been identified as autoimmune antibodies against nephrin in podocytes from a set of MCD cases (Watts AJB et al., JASN 2022;33:238-252). The corresponding ultrastructural findings by EM, however, of the autoimmune antibodies are not yet described. We hypothesized that budding ballooning clusters (BBC) seen in EM may be correlated with the punctate IgG staining granules. Design: We identified 7 patients with MCD …


Injured Proximal Tubules Stain Positivity For Arginase-1 To Indicate Acute Tubular Injury (Ati), Jessica Anderson, Neal Blatt, Olabisi Afolayan-Oloye, Hassan Kanaan, Wei Li, Larysa Wickman, Ping Zhang Mar 2023

Injured Proximal Tubules Stain Positivity For Arginase-1 To Indicate Acute Tubular Injury (Ati), Jessica Anderson, Neal Blatt, Olabisi Afolayan-Oloye, Hassan Kanaan, Wei Li, Larysa Wickman, Ping Zhang

Conference Presentation Abstracts

Background: A recent study indicates that arginase-1 participates in M2 macrophage-mediated renal tubular regeneration in a rodent model (Shin et al. JASN 2022). As injured proximal tubule cells have a phagocytotic capacity (stain positively for CD68 and kidney injury moleucule-1 in previous studies), we hypothesized that the injured proximal tubules may stain positively for arginase1. Design: We analyzed PAS-stained renal biopsy sections for evidence of ATI using a semiquantitative scale: 0 (no injury) to 1-2+ (mild to moderate ATI) to 3+ (severe ATI). First group (N=7) consisted of renal biopsies that had no evidence of ATI or were obtained from …