FACTA UNIVERSITATIS SERIES MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, Vol. 9, No 1, 2002 Contents

Vladisav Stefanović ANALGESIC NEPHROPATHY, BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY AND CHINESE HERBS NEPHROPATHY: SEPARATE TUBULOINTERSTITIAL KIDNEY DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH UROTHELIAL MALIGNANCY

Tsvetan Dimitrov BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY IN BULGARIA

Gheorghe Gluhovschi, Florin Margineanu, Virginia Trandafirescu, Adalbert Schiller, Ligia Petrica,  Silvia Velciov, Gheorghe Bozdog, Cristina Gluhovschi, Flaviu Bob BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY IN ROMANIA

Zoran Radovanovic BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY IN SERBIA: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE RESEARCH

Senaid Trnacevic, Ahmet Halilbasic, Goran Imamovic, Enisa Mesic BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY IN BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA

Gerald L. Feder, Calin A. Tatu, William H. Orem, Virgil Paunescu, Victor Dumitrascu,  Diana N. Szilagyi, Robert B. Finkelman, Florin Margineanu, Francisc Schneider WEATHERED COAL DEPOSITS AND BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY

William H. Orem, Calin A. Tatu, Gerald L. Feder, Robert B. Finkelman, Harry E. Lerch,  Susan V.M. Maharaj, Diana Szilagyi, Victor Dumitrascu, Virgil Paunescu, Florin Margineanu ENVIRONMENT, GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE ETIOLOGY OF BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY: LESSONS FROM ROMANIA

Jean-Pierre Cosyns HUMAN AND EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES OF ARISTOLOCHIC ACID NEPHROPATHY  (AAN; FORMERLY CHINESE HERBS NEPHROPATHY - CHN):  ARE THEY RELEVANT TO BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY (BEN)?

Heinz H. Schmeiser, Volker M. Arlt, Dusan Ferluga, Marie Stiborova,  Annie Pfohl-Leszkowicz, Mato Vukelic, Stjepan Ceovic, Jean-Pierre Cosyns ARISTOLOCHIC ACID AS A RISK FACTOR FOR BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY

A. Pfohl-Leszkowicz, H. Bartsch, B.Azémar, U. Mohr, J. Est?ve, M. Castegnaro MESNA PROTECTS RATS AGAINST NEPHROTOXICITY BUT NOT CARCINOGENICITY  INDUCED BY OCHRATOXIN A, IMPLICATING TWO SEPARATE PATHWAYS

Peter G. Mantle EXPERIMENTAL MYCOTOXIC NEPHROPATHIES AND BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY

Haydar Özpinar, Tanay Bilal, Ismail Abaş, Can Kutay UMSATZ VON OCHRATOXIN A IN PANSENFLÜßIGKEIT IN VITRO

Spiro M. Konstantinov, Aleksandar Kostovski, Martin R. Berger WILL HUMAN URINARY BLADDER CARCINOMA RESPOND TO TREATMENT  WITH ALKYLPHOSPHOCHOLINES AND CURCUMIN?

B. Uzelac-Keserović, K. Apostolov VIRUS ISOLATION FROM THE KIDNEY, TUMORS AND LYMPH NODES OF PATIENTS WITH BEN

G. Gluhovschi, A. Rosca, F. Margineanu HANTAVIRUS- SPECIFIC IgG AND IgM IN BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY (BEN)  AND CHRONIC RENAL DISEASE

Jasmina Marković-Lipkovski TUBULOEPITHELIAL - MYOFIBROBLAST TRANSDIFFERENTIATION - POSSIBLE PATHOGENIC MECHANISM OF INTERSTITIAL FIBROSIS IN BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY

Dušan Ferluga, Asta Hvala, Senaid Trnačević, Ahmet Halilbašić, Mato Vukelić, Josip Čeović, Alenka Vizjak PATHOLOGY OF BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY –  A CORRELATION WITH ESTABLISHED KIDNEY DISEASE ENTITIES

Alenka Vizjak, Senaid Trnačević, Ahmet Halilbašić, Dušan Ferluga IMMUNOHISTOLOGIC KIDNEY BIOPSY STUDY OF BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY

Vojin Savić, Rade Čukuranović, Natalija Stefanović, Vladisav Stefanović DAMAGE TO KIDNEY IN BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY:  INITIAL LESION, TARGET STRUCTURES AND PATHOMORPHOGENESIS

Marina Savin, Vladimir Petronic THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOLECULAR-BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF UPPER UROTHELIAL CARCINOMAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY

Vladimir Petronic, Marina Savin UPPER UROTHELIAL CARCINOMAS ASSOCIATED WITH BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY AND THEIR SIMILARITIES WITH UPPER UROTHELIAL CARCINOMAS IN ANALGESIC NEPHROPATHY

Rade Čukuranović, Branislav Petrović, Nebojša Marković, Natalija Stefanović, Vladisav Stefanović BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY AND UPPER UROTHELIAL CANCER  IN THE SOUTH MORAVA RIVER BASIN

Branislav Petrović, Biljana Kocić, Rade Čukuranović, Vladisav Stefanović MALIGNANT BLADDER TUMORS AND BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY:  POSSIBLE COMMON ETIOLOGIC FACTORS

Jovan Nikolić , Milan Djokić , Dragan Crnomarković , Jelena Marinković UPPER UROTHELIAL TUMORS AND BALKAN NEPHROPATHY- DOSE RESPONSIBLE DISEASES

I.G. Nikolov, I.N. Chernozemsky, T. Petkova-Bocharova, T. Vrabcheva, I. Stojchev, B. Bankov,  M. Castegnaro, A. Pfohl-Leszkowicz, S. Dragacci , N. Day, C. Gill, E. Useleber, R. Dietrich, E. Martlbauer REVIEW OF THE COOPERATIVE STUDIES OF THE NATIONAL ONCOLOGICAL CENTRE  IN BULGARIA ON BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY AND ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT TUMOURS (1991 – 2001)

ABSTRACTS OF THE MEETING: BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY: AN UPDATE