Name: Antonio Dal Canton
Birth Date: December 17, 1945
Address: Unit Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, University of Pavia and Policlinico San Matteo, Piazzale Golgi 27100 Pavia, Italy
Telephone Number: +39 (1139 from USA) 0382-422037

CURRENT POSITION:
Director, since 1987
Title: Professore Ordinario (Full Professor) of Nephrology, since 1986
University: Faculty of Medicine, Pavia
Hospital: Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
1971-1977 (October): Assistant, Dpt. Internal Medicine, University of Parma.
1977-1986 (October): Senior Assistant (Aiuto), Unit of Nephrology, University of Naples.
1986-1987 (March): Full Professor (Professore Ordinario) of Nephrology, University of Sassari
1987-1992 (October): Full Professor of Nephrology and Director, Unit of Nephrology, University of Reggio Calabria at Catanzaro.
1992- today: Full Professor of Nephrology, University of Pavia. Since 1995 (October) Director of the Dpt of Internal Medicine and Nephrology.

RELEVANT CLINICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Troughout the career:
- physiology of glomerular hemodynamics (renal micropuncture)
- pathophysiology and therapy of fluid retention
- pathophysiology and therapy of hypertension
- pathophysiology and therapy of acute and chronic renal failure, including Renal Replacement Therapy with dialysis and transplantation

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Pubblicazioni (impact factor >3)

1. Morphologic identification of microperfused-fixed single nephrons during renal micropuncture. Kidney International 5:300-302, 1974
2. Role of efferent arteriole in glomerular hemodynamics. Kidney International 9:475-480, 1976
3. Effects of acute ureteral obstruction on glomerular hemodynamics in rat kidney. Kidney International 12:403-411, 1977
4. Effects of 24-hour unilateral ureteral obstruction on glomerular dynamics in rat kidney. Kidney Internatinal 15:457-462, 1979
5. Glomerular hemodynamics before and after release of 24 hour bilateral ureteral obstruction Kidney International 17:491-496, 1980
6. Muzolimine: a new high-ceiling diuretic suitable for patients with advanced renal disease. British Medical Journal 282:595-598, 1981
7. Effects of pregnancy on glomerular dynamics. Micropuncture study in the rat. Kidney International 22:608-612, 1982
8. Usefulness of hypnosis for carrying out renal needle biopsy in children. Kidney International 26: 351-352, 1984
9. Mechanism of impaired concentration in chronic primary glomerulonephritis. Kidney International 27:792-798, 1985.
10. Diuretic therapy in uremic patients. Kidney International 28: 154-156, 1985
11. Polyuric prerenal failure after reduction from high to normal dietary saline intake. Archives of Internal Medicine 9: 1814-1816, 1986.
12. Captopril and impaired renal function. Annals of Internal Medicine 104:263, 1986.
13. Renal handling of urea in subjects with persistent azotemia and normal renal function. Kidney International 32:721-727, 1987.
14. Percutaneous renal embolization in renovascular hypertension. British Medical Journal 296:1160-1161, 1988
15. Theory of urine formation and uroscopic diagnosis in the medical school of Salerno. Kidney International 34:273-277, 1988.
16. Acute cyclosporine dysfunction reversed by dopamine infusion in healthy subjects. Kidney International 36:1086-1092, 1989
17. Glomerular dynamics and salt balance in pregnant rats with renal hypertension. American Journal of Physiology 256: F728-F734, 1989.
18. Acute increase in plasma osmolality as a cause of hyperkalemia in patients with renal disease. Kidney International 38:301-307, 1990
19. Role of atrial natriuretic factor in renal adaptation to variation of salt intake in humans. American Journal of Physiology 258: 1579-1583, 1990
20. Mesangial expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 in primary glomerulosclerosis. Kidney International 41:220-224, 1992.
21 Role of inhibition of atrial natriuretic factor release in the down- regulation of salt excretion. Kidney International 42: 673- 680, 1992.
22 Hemodialysis related induction of interleukin-6 production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Kidney International 42: 320-326, 1992
23. Extra-natriuretic effects of atrial natriuretic peptide in humans. Kidney International 43: 307- 313, 1993
24. Prevalence of symptoms in patients with simple renal cysts. British Medical Journal 306: 430-431, 1993.
25. Adhesion molecules in renal disease. Kidney International 48:1687-1696, 1995.
26. Serial morphometric analysis of sclerotic lesions in primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Journal American Society Nephrology 7:49-55, 1996
27. Effects of age on the role of atrial natriuretic factor in renal adaptation to physiologic variations of dietary salt intake. Journal American Society Nephrology 7:1045-1051, 1996
28. Circulating serum lectins of patients with IgA nephropathy stimulate IL-6 release from mesangial cells. Journal American Society Nephrology 8: 208-213, 1997.
29. Hemodialysis stimulates hepatocyte growth factor release. Kidney International 53: 1382-8, 1998.
30. Hemodialysis prevents liver disease caused by hepatitis C virus: role of Hepatocyte Growth Factor. Kidney Int 56: 2286-2291, 1999.
31. Cyclosporine induces different responses in human epithelial, endothelial and fibroblast cell cultures. Kidney International 58:123-130, 2000.
32. Long-term exposure to high glucose up-regulates VCAM-induced endothelial cell adhesiveness to PBMC. Kidney International 59:1842-1849, 2001.
33. Polarization of T-Helper lymphocytes toward the Th2 phenotype in uremic patients. American Journal Kidney Disease 38:286-295, 2001
34. Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scatter Factor released during peritonitis is active on mesothelial cells. American Journal of Pathology 159:1-11, 2001.
35. Macrophage-Stimulating protein is produced by tubular cells and activates mesangial cells. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 13:649-657, 2002.
36. Hypercarotenemia. New England Journal of Medicine 346:821, 2002
37. Lunch-related polyuria. American Journal of Kidney Disease 40:218-9, 2002.
38. Correlation between hyperhomocysteinemia and interleukin-18 serum levels in maintenance hemodialyzed patients. - Kidney International 62: 1900, 2002.
39. Inverse association between homocysteine and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor serum levels in hemodialyzed and kidney transplanted patients.
Kidney Int. 64(5):1922, 2003.
40. Prevalence of hyperhomocysteinemia in male hemodialysis patients.Kidney Int. 64:1531, 2003.
41. Peritoneal dialysis and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.
N Engl J Med. 348:2037-9, 2003
42. The Ron proto-oncogene product is a phenotypic marker of renal oncocytoma.
Am J Surg Pathol 27:779-85, 2003.
43. Vitamin E-loaded dialyzer resets PBMC-operated cytokine network in dialysis patients.
Kidney Int. 65:1473-81, 2004

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