Dr. Jeff Michael Sands M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
Emory University Renal Division 1639 Pierce Drive, W Atlanta GA, 30322About
Dr. Jeff Sands is a nephrologist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Sands specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Sands most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Boston Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1981
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Vasopressin rapidly increases phosphorylation of UT-A1 urea transporter in rat IMCDs through PKA.
- Expression of urea transporters in the developing rat kidney.
- Down-regulation of urea transporters in the renal inner medulla of lithium-fed rats.
- Acidosis mediates the upregulation of UT-A protein in livers from uremic rats.
- Impaired urine concentration and absence of tissue ACE: involvement of medullary transport proteins.
- Urea transporters are distributed in endothelial cells and mediate inhibition of L-arginine transport.
- Molecular approaches to urea transporters.
- Mammalian urea transporters.
- Changes in renal medullary transport proteins during uncontrolled diabetes mellitus in rats.
- Urine-concentrating ability in the aging kidney.
- Expression of urea transporters in potassium-depleted mouse kidney.
- Immunohistochemical localization of urea transporters A and B in the rat cochlea.
- Role of vasopressin in diabetes mellitus-induced changes in medullary transport proteins involved in urine concentration in Brattleboro rats.
- Long-term treatment with cyclosporine decreases aquaporins and urea transporters in the rat kidney.
- Aldosterone decreases UT-A1 urea transporter expression via the mineralocorticoid receptor.
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