Role of Local Versus Systemic Vitamin D Receptors in Vascular Calcification

Vitamin D receptor agonists increase klotho and osteopontin while decreasing aortic calcification in mice with chronic kidney disease fed a high phosphate diet

(2012) Wei Ling Lau et al.   KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL

Elastin Degradation and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype Change Precede Cell Loss and Arterial Medial Calcification in a Uremic Mouse Model of Chronic Kidney Disease

(2011) Ashwini Pai et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY

Extracellular pyrophosphate metabolism and calcification in vascular smooth muscle

(2011) Ricardo Villa-Bellosta et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

The Risk for Medial Arterial Calcification in CKD

(2011) N. Abou Hassan et al.   Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Matrix Gla Protein Metabolism in Vascular Smooth Muscle and Role in Uremic Vascular Calcification

(2011) Koba A. Lomashvili et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Role of calcium-phosphate deposition in vascular smooth muscle cell calcification

(2010) Ricardo Villa-Bellosta et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Treatment with pyrophosphate inhibits uremic vascular calcification

(2010) W Charles O'Neill et al.   KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL

Coronary Calcification in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Coronary Artery Disease

(2009) S. Nakamura et al.   Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

The calcimimetic AMG 641 abrogates parathyroid hyperplasia, bone and vascular calcification abnormalities in uremic rats

(2009) Charles Henley et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Effect of bisphosphonates on vascular calcification and bone metabolism in experimental renal failure

(2009) Koba A. Lomashvili et al.   KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL

Vitamin D Receptor Activators Can Protect against Vascular Calcification

(2008) S. Mathew et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY

Upregulation of alkaline phosphatase and pyrophosphate hydrolysis: Potential mechanism for uremic vascular calcification

(2008) K.A. Lomashvili et al.   KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL

The effect of calcitriol, paricalcitol, and a calcimimetic on extraosseous calcifications in uremic rats

(2007) I. Lopez et al.   KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL