Journal Publications

• Leung N, Eirin A, Irazabal MV, Maddox DE, Gunderson HD, Fervenza FC, Garovic VD. Acute kidney injury in patients with inactive cytochrome P450 polymorphisms. Ren Fail. 2009;31(8):749-52. PMID:19814645.
• Fervenza FC, Abraham RS, Erickson SB, Irazabal MV, Eirin A, Specks U, Nachman PH, Bergstralh EJ, Leung N, Cosio FG, Hogan MC, Dillon JJ, Hickson LJ, Li X, Cattran DC. Rituximab Therapy in Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy: A 2-Year Study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010;5(12):2188-2198. PMID:20705965.
• Eirin A, Zhu XY, Urbieta-Caceres VH, Grande JP, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Persistent renal dysfunction after revascularization is associated with outer cortical microvascular remodeling in swine atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2011;300(6):F1394-401. PMID:21367913.
• Geetha D, Eirin A, True K, Irazabal MV, Specks U, Seo P, Nachman PH, Fervenza FC. Renal Transplantation in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis: A Multicenter Experience. Transplantation. 2011;27;91(12):1370-1375. PMID:21508899.
• Herzenberg AM, Fogo AB, Reich HN, Troyanov S, Bavbek N, Eirin A, Hunley TE, Hladunewich MA, Julian BA, Fervenza FC, Cattran DC. Validation of the Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy. Kidney Int. 2011;80(3):310-7. PMID:21544062.
• Eirin A, Irazabal MV, Gertz MA, Dispenzieri A, Lacy MQ, Buadi FK, Kumar S, Sethi S, Kyle RA, Hayman SR, Zeldenrust SR, Greipp PR, Fervenza FC, Ramirez-Alvarado M, Leung N. Clinical Features of Patients with Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloidosis (AL) with Vascular Limited Deposition in the Kidney. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2011;0: 1-4. PMID:22067518.
• Irazabal MV, Eirin A, Gertz MA, Dispenzieri A, Kumar S , Buadi F, Lacy MQ, Hayman SR, Dingli D, Hogan WJ, Gastineau DA, Glavey SV, Amer H, N Leung. Acute kidney injury is common during leukocyte engraftment after autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with light chain amyloidosis (AL). Am J Hematol 2011;87(1):51-4. PMID:22076913.
• Zacharias DG, Kim SG, Eirin A, Bachar AR, Oh YK, Herrmann J, Rodriguez-Porcel M, Cohen P, Lerman LO, Lerman A. Humanin, a cytoprotective peptide, is expressed in carotid artherosclerotic plaques in humans. PLoS ONE 2012;7(2): e31065. PMID:22328926.
• Eirin A, Zhu XY, Krier JD, Tang H, Jordan KL, Grande JP, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells improve revascularization outcomes to restore renal function in swine atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis. Stem Cells. 2012;30(5):1030-41. PMID:22290832.
• Ebrahimi B, Li Z, Eirin A, Zhu XY, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Addition of Endothelial Progenitor Cells to Renal Revascularization Restores Medullary Tubular Oxygen Consumption in Swine Renal Artery Stenosis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2012;302(1):F1478-85. PMID:22419692.
• Eirin A, Gloviczki ML, Gossl M, Tang H, Jordan KL, Woollard JR, Lerman A, Grande JP, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Inflammatory and injury signals released from the post-stenotic human kidney. Eur Heart J 2013 34(7):540-8. PMID:22771675.
• Zhang X, Urbieta-Caceres VH, Eirin A, Bell CC, Crane JA, Tange H, Jordan K, Oh YK, Zhu, XY, Korsmo MJ, Bachar AR, Cohen P, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Humanin prevents intra-renal microvascular remodeling and inflammation in hypercholesterolemic ApoE deficient mice. Life Sciences 2012;4;91(5-6):199-206. PMID:22820173.
• Eirin A, Gloviczki ML, Tang H, Woollard JR, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Chronic renovascular hypertension is associated with elevated plasma levels of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2012;27(11):4153-61. PMID:22923545.
• Irazabal MV, Eirin A, Lieske J, Beck LH, Borland TM, Dillon JJ, Nachman PH, Sethi S, Nasr S, Erickson SB, Cattran DC, and Fervenza FC. Low and high molecular weight urinary proteins as predictors of response to rituximab in patients with membranous nephropathy: A prospective study. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2012;5(5):720-8. PMID:22987142.
• Leung N, Gertz M, Kyle RA, Fervenza FC, Irazabal MV, Eirin A, Kumar S, Cha SS, Rajkumar SV, Lacy MQ, Zeldenrust SR, Buadi FK, Hayman SR, Nasr SH, Sethi S, Ramirez-Alvarado M, Witzig TE, Herrmann SM, Dispenzieri A. Urinary Albumin Excretion Patterns of Patients with Cast Nephropathy and Other Monoclonal Gammopathy-Related Kidney Diseases. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2012;7(12):1964-8. PMID:23024162.
• Eirin A, Li Z, Zhang X, Krier JD, Woollard JR, Zhu XY, Tang H, Herrmann SM, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. A mitochondrial permeability transition pore inhibitor improves renal outcomes after revascularization in experimental atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis. Hypertension, 2012;60(5):1242-9. PMID:23045468.
• Eirin A, Ebrahimi B, Zhang X, Zhu XY, Tang H, Crane JA, Textor SC, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Changes in glomerular filtration rate after renal revascularization correlate with microvascular hemodynamics and inflammation in swine renal artery stenosis. Circ Cardiovasc Interv, 2012;1;5(5):720-8. PMID:23048054.
• Korsmo MJ, Ebrahimi B, Woollard JR, Crane JA, Eirin A, Krier JD, Ehman RL, and Lerman LO. Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) detects medullary renal fibrosis. Invest Radiol 2013;48(2):61-8. PMID:23262789.
• Krier JD, Crane JA, Eirin A, Zhu XY, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Hemodynamic determinants of peri-vascular collateral development in swine renal artery stenosis. Am J Hypertens 2013;26(2):209-17. PMID:23382405.
• Eirin A, Zhu XY, Li Z, Ebrahimi B, Zhang X, Tang H, Korsmo MJ, Chade AR, Grande JP, Ward CJ, Simari RD, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Endothelial outgrowth cells shift macrophage phenotype and improve kidney viability in swine renal artery stenosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 2013;33(5):1006-13. PMID:23430615.
• Zhang X, Eirin A, Li ZL, Crane JA, Krier JD, Ebrahimi B, Pawar AS, Zhu XY, Tang H, Jordan KL, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Angiotensin receptor blockade has protective effects on the poststenotic porcine kidney. Kidney Int. 2013,84, 767–775. PMID:23615504.
• Zhang X, Li Z, Woollard JR, Eirin A, Ebrahimi B, Crane JA, Zhu XY, Pawar A, Krier JD, Jordan KL, Tang H, Textor SC, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Obesity-metabolic derangement preserves hemodynamics but promotes intra-renal adiposity and macrophage infiltration in swine renovascular disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2013,305(3). PMID:23657852.
• Eirin A, Lerman LO. Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Post-Stenotic Kidney Injury. Physiology, 2013;28:(4) 245-253. PMID:23817799.
• Ebrahimi B, Eirin A, Li Z, Zhu XY, Zhang X, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improve Medullary Inflammation and Fibrosis After Revascularization of Swine Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis. PLoS One 2013,8(7): e67474. PMID:23844014.
• Eirin A, Zhu XY, Woollard JR, Herrmann SM, Gloviczki ML, Saad A, Juncos LA, Calhoun DA, Rule AD, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Increased Circulating Inflammatory Endothelial Cells in African-Americans with Essential Hypertension. Hypertension 2013;62:585-591. PMID:23798347.
• Saad A, Herrmann SM, Crane JA, Glockner JF, Mckusick MA, Misra S, Eirin A, Ebrahimi B, Lerman LO, Textor SC. Renal revascularization restores blood flow and reverses tissue hypoxia, but fails to reverse inflammatory pathways or GFR. Circ Cardivasc Interv 2013, 6:428-35. PMID:23899868.
• Eirin A, Zhang X, Zhu XY, Tang H, Jordan KL, Grande JP, Dietz AB, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Renal Vein Cytokine Release as an Index of Renal Parenchymal Inflammation in Chronic Experimental Renal Artery Stenosis. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2014, 29(2):274-82. PMID:24097799.
• Eirin A, Williams BJ, Ebrahimi B, Zhang X, Crane JA, Herrmann SM, Lerman A, Textor SC, Lerman LO. Mitochondrial Targeted Peptides Attenuate Residual Myocardial Damage after Reversal of Experimental Renovascular Hypertension. J Hypertens 2014, 32:154-65. PMID:24048008.
• Khangura KK, Eirin A, Kane GC, Misra S, Textor SC, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Cardiac Function In Renovascular Hypertensive Patients With And Without Renal Dysfunction. Am J Hypertens 2014, 27(3):445-53. PMID:24162729.
• Li Z, Ebrahimi B, Zhang X, Eirin A, Woollard JR, Tang H, Lerman A, Wang SM, Lerman LO. Obesity-metabolic derangement exacerbates cardiomyocyte loss distal to moderate coronary artery stenosis in pigs without affecting global cardiac function. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2014;306(7):H1087-101. PMID:24508639.
• Khangura KK, Eirin A, Kane GC, Misra S, Textor SC, Lerman A and Lerman LO. Extrarenal atherosclerotic disease blunts renal recovery in patients with renovascular hypertension. J of Hypertension, 2014;32(6):1300-6. PMID:24625655.
• Ebrahimi B, Rihal N, Wollard JR, Krier JD, Eirin A, Lerman LO. Assessment of Renal Artery Stenosis Using Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Diffusion-weighted MRI Analysis. Invest Radiol, In Press. PMID:24743589.
• Eirin A and Lerman LO. Mesenchymal stem cell treatment for chronic renal failure. Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2014;(5):83.
• Eirin A, Ebrahimi B, Zhang X, Zhu XY, Woollard JR, He Q, Textor SC, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Mitochondrial protection restores renal function in swine atherosclerotic renovascular disease. Cardiovasc Res, 2014 In Press. PMID:24947415.
• Zhu XY, Ebrahimi B, Eirin A, Woollard JR, Jordan KL, Ofori M, Dietz AB, Saad A, Herrmann SM, Dietz AB, Textor SC, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Renal vein levels of miRNA-26a are decreased in the post-stenotic human and swine kidney. JASN, 2014 In Press.
• Eirin A, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Mitochondrial injury and dysfunction in hypertension-induced cardiac damage. Eur Heart J, 2014 In Press.
• Sun D, Eirin A, Zhu XY, Zhang X, Crane JA, Woollard JR, Lerman A, Lerman LO. Experimental Coronary Artery Stenosis Accelerates Kidney Damage in Renovascular Hypertensive Swine. Kidney Int, 2014 In Press.
• Eirin A, Riester SM, Zhu XY, Tang H, Evans JM, O’Brien DR, van Wijnen AJ, Lerman LO. MicroRNA and mRNA Cargo of Extracellular Vesicles from Swine Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Gene, 2014. In Press.