| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Bacteremia associated with tunneled, cuffed hemodialysis catheters | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 1999 | 288 |
| 2 | Preventing neurological complications from dysnatremias in children | Pediatric Nephrology | 2005 | 172 |
| 3 | Iron Deficiency in Chronic Kidney Disease: Updates on Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2020 | 140 |
| 4 | Expression of platelet-derived growth factor in a model of acute liver injury | Hepatology | 1994 | 136 |
| 5 | Obesity-mediated inflammatory microenvironment stimulates osteoclastogenesis and bone loss in mice | Experimental Gerontology | 2011 | 130 |
| 6 | Cardiovascular calcification in patients with end-stage renal disease: A century-old phenomenon | Kidney International | 2002 | 110 |
| 7 | Breastfeeding-Associated Hypernatremia: Are We Missing the Diagnosis? | Pediatrics | 2005 | 99 |
| 8 | The role of vitamin D in left ventricular hypertrophy and cardiac function | Kidney International | 2005 | 92 |
| 9 | Tryptophan Metabolism in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Secondary to Type 2 Diabetes: Relationship to Inflammatory Markers | International Journal of Tryptophan Research | 2017 | 89 |
| 10 | CYP2D6 genetic variation in healthy adults and psychiatric African-American subjects: implications for clinical practice and genetic testing | Pharmacogenomics Journal | 2006 | 84 |
| 11 | Nek1 regulates cell death and mitochondrial membrane permeability through phosphorylation of VDAC1 | Cell Cycle | 2009 | 79 |
| 12 | Bariatric surgery and bone disease: from clinical perspective to molecular insights | International Journal of Obesity | 2012 | 77 |
| 13 | The Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes (FIND) | Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications | 2005 | 75 |
| 14 | Never-in-mitosis related Kinase 1 functions in DNA damage response and checkpoint control | Cell Cycle | 2008 | 75 |
| 15 | Pioglitazone improves glucose metabolism and modulates skeletal muscle TIMP-3–TACE dyad in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, mechanistic study | Diabetologia | 2013 | 71 |
| 16 | Platelet-derived growth factor and mesangial cells | Kidney International | 1992 | 67 |
| 17 | Abundance of TRPC6 protein in glomerular mesangial cells is decreased by ROS and PKC in diabetes | American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology | 2011 | 65 |
| 18 | An essential role for cardiolipin in the stability and function of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 63 |
| 19 | Recruitment of Thyroid Hormone Receptor/Retinoblastoma-interacting Protein 230 by the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Nuclear Translocator Is Required for the Transcriptional Response to Both Dioxin and Hypoxia | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2004 | 61 |
| 20 | The pediatric solid organ transplant experience with COVID‐19: An initial multi‐center, multi‐organ case series | Pediatric Transplantation | 2021 | 60 |
| 21 | Angiotensin II and growth factors in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy | Kidney International | 2002 | 55 |
| 22 | CC chemokine receptor 5 deletion impairs macrophage activation and induces adverse remodeling following myocardial infarction | American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology | 2011 | 52 |
| 23 | The role of daily dialysis in the control of hyperphosphatemia | Kidney International | 2005 | 48 |
| 24 | Rate of ESRD Exceeds Mortality among African Americans with Hypertensive Nephrosclerosis | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2010 | 48 |
| 25 | Increased Expression of Glutathione Reductase in Macrophages Decreases Atherosclerotic Lesion Formation in Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor–Deficient Mice | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology | 2007 | 45 |
| 26 | Mutation of NIMA-related kinase 1 (NEK1) leads to chromosome instability | Molecular Cancer | 2011 | 45 |
| 27 | Body temperature regulation during hemodialysis in long-term patients: is it time to change dialysate temperature prescription? | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2004 | 42 |
| 28 | ADAM17 mediates Nox4 expression and NADPH oxidase activity in the kidney cortex of OVE26 mice | American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology | 2013 | 40 |
| 29 | The relationship of social support with treatment adherence and weight loss in Latinos with type 2 diabetes | Obesity | 2016 | 38 |
| 30 | Concentrated fish oil (Lovaza®) extends lifespan and attenuates kidney disease in lupus-prone short-lived (NZBxNZW)F1 mice | Experimental Biology and Medicine | 2013 | 37 |
| 31 | Effect of insulin therapy on renal hemodynamic response to amino acids and renal hypertrophy in non-insulin-dependent diabetes | Kidney International | 1992 | 36 |
| 32 | The Kidney: An Organ in the Front Line of Oxidative Stress-Associated Pathologies | Antioxidants and Redox Signaling | 2016 | 36 |
| 33 | Reliability and validity of blood pressure measurement in the Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes study | Blood Pressure Monitoring | 2007 | 35 |
| 34 | Transcriptomic Identification of ADH1B as a Novel Candidate Gene for Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Human Adipose Tissue in Mexican Americans from the Veterans Administration Genetic Epidemiology Study (VAGES) | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 35 |
| 35 | Racial differences in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States: a social and economic dilemma | Clinical Nephrology | 2011 | 35 |
| 36 | DESI-MSI and METASPACE indicates lipid abnormalities and altered mitochondrial membrane components in diabetic renal proximal tubules | Metabolomics | 2020 | 34 |
| 37 | Intravenous Contrast: Friend or Foe? A Review on Contrast-Induced Nephropathy | Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease | 2017 | 33 |
| 38 | Ribosomal biogenesis induction by high glucose requires activation of upstream binding factor in kidney glomerular epithelial cells | American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology | 2011 | 31 |
| 39 | PDGF stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation of JAK 1 protein tyrosine kinase in human mesangial cells | Kidney International | 1996 | 28 |
| 40 | Spleen contributes significantly to increased circulating levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 in response to lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2017 | 25 |
| 41 | Glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene expression in cultured 3T3-L1 adipocytes: regulation by insulin, dexamethasone and dibutyryl cAMP at the level of mRNA abundancem transcription and mRNA stability | Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology | 1991 | 22 |
| 42 | Genetic variants in the renin-angiotensin system genes are associated with cardiovascular-renal-related risk factors in Mexican Americans | Human Genetics | 2008 | 20 |
| 43 | Dyslipidemia in Dialysis Patients | Seminars in Dialysis | 2015 | 20 |
| 44 | Weight Loss Experiences of African American, Hispanic, and Non‐Hispanic White Men and Women with Type 2 Diabetes: The Look AHEAD Trial | Obesity | 2019 | 20 |
| 45 | The 27-bp repeat polymorphism in intron 4 (27 bp-VNTR) of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene is associated with albumin to creatinine ratio in Mexican Americans | Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry | 2009 | 19 |
| 46 | Preferences regarding Genetic Research Results: Comparing Veterans and Nonveterans Responses | Public Health Genomics | 2010 | 18 |
| 47 | Increased Nek1 expression in Renal Cell Carcinoma cells is associated with decreased sensitivity to DNA-damaging treatment | Oncotarget | 2014 | 18 |
| 48 | The Acidic Tail domain of Human Cdc34 is Required for p27Kip1 Ubiquitination and Complementation of a cdc34 Temperature Sensitive Yeast Strain | Cell Cycle | 2005 | 17 |
| 49 | Identification of Caspase-6 as a New Regulator of Alternatively Activated Macrophages | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2016 | 17 |
| 50 | Changes in plasma and urine metabolites associated with empagliflozin in patients with type 1 diabetes | Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism | 2021 | 17 |
