Dr Wayne Comper (PhD, DSc)

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Telephone: +61 - 3 9905 3774 Facsimile: +61 -3 9905 4699 Email: Wayne.Comper@med.monash.edu.au

Research Interest:

• Mechanisms of proteinuria in kidney disease including diabetic/hypertension renal complications.
  
  
• Biochemistry and biophysics of the renal passage of proteins including filtration at the glomerular capillary wall and tubular uptake and transtubular transport

Research Links:

Diabetes & Renal Failure
Mechanisms of Proteinurea in Kidney

Recent Publications

1. Eppel, G.A., Osicka, T. M., Pratt, L.M., Jablonski, J., Howden, B., Glasgow, E.F. and Comper, W.D. (1999) The return of glomerular filtered albumin to the rat renal vein. Kidney Int. 55, 1861-1870.
   
   
2. Osicka, T.M., Houlihan, C.A., Chan, J.G., Jerums, G. and Comper, W.D. (2000) Albuminuria in patients with type I diabetes is directly linked to changes in the lysosomal-mediated degradation of albumin during renal passage. Diabetes 49, 1579-1584.