Chronic norovirus infection in renal transplant recipients (2009)
Westhoff, Timm H., Vergoulidou, Maria, Loddenkemper, Christoph, Schwartz, Stefan, Hofmann, Jörg, Schneider, Thomas, ...
Norovirus infection is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis. In immunocompetent subjects, norovirus infection is a self-limiting disease of short duration. The present report provides first...
The uraemic toxin phenylacetic acid impairs macrophage function (2008)
Schmidt, Sven, Westhoff, Timm H., Krauser, Philipp, Ignatius, Ralf, Jankowski, Joachim, Jankowski, Vera, ...
Background. Nitric oxide (NO) is known to be an important mediator of macrophage cytotoxicity. NO in macrophages is generated via the inducible nitric oxide synthases (iNOS). Macrophage dysfunction...
Schmidt, Sven, Westhoff, Timm H., Krauser, Phillip, Zidek, Walter, Van Der Giet, Markus
Background. Cardiovascular events are the most common cause of death in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Traditional risk factors do not sufficiently explain the marked increment in...
Westhoff, Timm H., Schmidt, Sven, Glander, Petra, Liefeld, Lutz, Martini, Sebastian, Offermann, Gerd, ...
Background. FTY720 has recently demonstrated a similar efficacy in prevention of acute graft rejection compared with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in a large phase III trial of de novo renal transplant...
A physiogenomic approach to study the regulation of blood pressure (2005)
Westhoff, Timm H., Scheid, Stefanie, Tölle, Markus, Kaynak, Bogac, Schmidt, Sven, Zidek, Walter, ...
Several vasoregulatory systems including the renin-angiotensin system, sympathetic vasoregulation, and cytokine release have been studied extensively. The aim of the present study was to establish a...