Includes bibliographical references and index.

Uremic toxins : an integrated overview of definition and classification / Richard J. Glassock and Shaul G. Massry -- Classification and a list of uremic toxins / Nathalie Neirynck ... [et al.] -- Analysis of uremic toxins with mass spectrometry? / Toshimitsu Niwa -- Indoxyl sulfate / Toshimitsu Niwa -- P-cresyl sulfate / Anneleen Pletinck, Raymond Vanholder, and Griet Glorieux -- 3-carboxy-4-methyl-5-propyl-2-furanpropionic acid / Toshimitsu Niwa -- Phenylacetic acid / Anna Schulz and Joachim Jankowski -- Homocysteine and hydrogen sulfide : two opposing aspects in the pathobiology of sulfur compounds in chronic renal failure / Alessandra F. Perna and Diego Ingrosso -- Guanidino compounds / Sunny Eloot ... [et al.] -- Asymmetric dimethylarginine / Vladimir Teplan and Jaroslav Racek -- Nicotinamide metabolites / Przemyslaw Rutkowski and Boleslaw Rutkowski -- Dicarbonyls (glyoxal, methylglyoxal, and 3-deoxyglucosone) / Naila Rabbani and Paul J. Thornalley -- Glucose degradation products in peritoneal dialysis / Monika Pischetsrieder and Sabrina Gensberger -- Dinucleoside polyphosphates / Joachim Jankowski and Vera Jankowski -- Parathyroid hormone / Shaul G. Massry and Miroslaw Smogorzewski -- 2-microglobulin / Suguru Yamamoto ... [et al.] -- Cytokines / Bjorn Anderstam, Bengt Lindholm, and Peter Stenvinkel -- Free immunoglobulin light chains / Gerald Cohen and Walter H. Hirl -- Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) / Naila Rabbani and Paul J. Thornalley -- Oxidized albumin / Maurizio Bruschi ... [et al.] -- Therapeutic removal of uremic toxins by hemodialysis / Tammy L. Sirich, Pavel Aronov, and Timothy W. Meyer -- Therapeutic removal of uremic toxins by peritoneal dialysis / Malgorzata Debowska ... [et al.] -- Therapeutic removal of uremic toxins by oral sorbent / Toshimitsu Niwa.