Effects of chronic administration of tryptophan with or without concomitant fluoxetine in depression-related and anxiety-like behaviors on adult rat.

Depression and anxiety play an important role in decreasing quality of life worldwide. Since tryptophan is a serotonin precursor and low levels of serotonin seems to be related to depression, the effect of oral tryptophan has been investigated for possible potentiation of the action of antidepressant drugs. We investigated the effects of chronically administered tryptophan (50mg/kg/day, p.

Renal transplantation in children younger than 6 years old.

Herein we report our experience in renal transplantation in 38 children (40 transplants), ages 1 to 5 years, between 1989 and 2005. Demographics as well as patient and graft survivals are reported. Mean age at transplantation was 3.

300 pediatric renal transplantations: A single-center experience.

Unlabelled: Our objective was to relate the results of 300 consecutive kidney transplants performed in children at a single center.

Patients And Methods: An analysis of kidney transplants was performed on patients less than 18 years old engrafted from May 1977 to August 2005.

Results: Among 300 kidney transplants, 48% of the patients were female, 87% were Caucasian, and 13% were African-Brazilian.

Plasmapheresis for recurrent posttransplant focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.

The high recurrence rate of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in kidney transplant recipients suggests that such patients have a circulating factor that alters glomerular capillary permeability. Serum from patients with FSGS increases glomerular permeability to albumin. This permeability factor has been partially identified as a protein.

Conversion to sirolimus in pediatric renal transplantation recipients.

We retrospectively evaluated the efficacy and safety of sirolimus (SRL) in 16 pediatric renal transplant recipients, who were 9.4 +/- 4.1 years of age when they first received SRL.