Professor Axel Pflueger, MD, PhD, FASN

Publications, Research & Academic Contributions

A curated selection from Professor Pflueger’s extensive publication record, spanning nephrology, renal vascular physiology, diabetic kidney research, oxidative stress, biomarkers, and kidney-related clinical outcomes.

Research Overview

Professor Pflueger’s academic record includes more than 300 publications and academic contributions across nephrology, internal medicine, pharmacology, kidney physiology, diabetic kidney disease, biomarkers, vascular medicine, contrast-associated kidney injury, and related clinical topics.

The publications below are a curated selection authored or co-authored by Professor Pflueger. They are not a complete bibliography. Each entry links to the external scholarly record.

Research Themes Represented

  • Renal vascular physiology and intrarenal hemodynamics
  • Diabetic kidney disease and renal microcirculation
  • Oxidative stress and contrast-associated kidney injury
  • Kidney biomarkers and translational research
  • Renal artery disease and clinical outcomes

Bibliographic record

Leading Publications

A curated selection from a publication record of more than 300 works. This is not a complete bibliography and does not represent every leading publication.

  1. 2009 Contrast-associated kidney injury

    Role of oxidative stress in contrast-induced acute kidney injury in diabetes mellitus

    Medical Science Monitor. 2009;15(6):RA125–RA136.

  2. 2005 Renal and vascular physiology

    The hyperbilirubinemic Gunn rat is resistant to the pressor effects of angiotensin II

    American Journal of Physiology–Renal Physiology. 2005;288(3):F552–F558.

  3. 2005 Clinical medicine

    38-year-old man with priapism and a history of paranoid schizophrenia

    Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2005;80(1):111–114.

  4. 2000 Contrast-associated kidney injury

    Role of adenosine in contrast media-induced acute renal failure in diabetes mellitus

    Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2000;75(12):1275–1283.

  5. 1999 Renal vascular physiology

    Adenosine-induced renal vasoconstriction in diabetes mellitus rats: role of prostaglandins

    American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 1999;277(5):R1410–R1417.

  6. 1999 Renal microcirculation and diabetes

    Role of nitric oxide in intrarenal hemodynamics in experimental diabetes mellitus in rats

    American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 1999;277(3):R725–R733.

  7. 1999 Renal vascular physiology

    Adenosine-induced renal vasoconstriction in diabetes mellitus rats: role of nitric oxide

    American Journal of Physiology–Renal Physiology. 1999;276(3):F340–F346.

  8. 1998 Renal physiology and phosphate handling

    Effect of renal interstitial adenosine infusion on phosphate excretion in diabetes mellitus rats

    American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 1998;274(5):R1228–R1235.

  9. 1995 Renal vascular physiology and diabetes

    Increased sensitivity of the renal vasculature to adenosine in streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus rats

    American Journal of Physiology–Renal Physiology. 1995;269(4 Pt 2):F529–F535.

  10. 2013 Biomarkers and diabetic kidney research

    Measurement of urinary TGF-β1 in patients with diabetes mellitus and normal controls

    Clinical Biochemistry. 2013;46(15):1430–1435.