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Jacques Durr

Jacques Durr, MD

Professor and Division Director, Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine

Division Chief, College of Medicine Internal Medicine

Contact Info

Education

  • MD, University of Geneva School of Medicine, 1976

Interdisciplinary and Emerging Signature Programs

  • Other

Memberships

  • Member (American Society of Nephrology, 2012 - Present)
  • Member (International Society of Nephrology, 2012 - Present)
  • Member (National Kidney Foundation, 2012 - Present)

Recent Publications

  • Sponsel HT, Alfrey AC, Hammond WS, Durr JA, Ray C, Anderson RJ. Effect of iron on renal tubular epithelial cells. Kidney international. 50(2) : 436-44, 1996.
  • Igor Sunjic Anthony Nguyen Jacques Durr Claude Bassil. Dual Paraneoplastic Syndromes in metastatic small cell carcinoma. British Journal of Renal Medicine.. 21(4) , 2016.
  • Winston J Chonchol M Gallant J Durr J Canada RB5 Liu H Martin P Patel K Hindman J Piontkowsky D. Discontinuation of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for presumed renal adverse events in treatment-naïve HIV-1 patients: meta-analysis of randomized clinical studies. HIV Clin Trials. 15(6) : 231-45, 2014.
  • Durr JA, Blankenship M, Chauhan SS, Pennington MW. Targeted tyrosine iodination in a multi-tyrosine vasopressin analog. Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society. 13(11) : 756-61, 2007.
  • Fernandez HL, Chen M, Nadelhaft I, Durr JA. Calcitonin gene-related peptides: their binding sites and receptor accessory proteins in adult mammalian skeletal muscles. Neuroscience. 119(2) : 335-45, 2003.
  • Durr JA, Hensen J, Ehnis T, Blankenship MS. Chlorpropamide upregulates antidiuretic hormone receptors and unmasks constitutive receptor signaling. American journal of physiology. Renal physiology. 278(5) : F799-808, 2000.
  • Durr JA, Lindheimer MD. Diagnosis and management of diabetes insipidus during pregnancy. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. 2(5) : 353-61, 1996.
  • Hocher B, Dürr JA, Hensen J. Effect of bacitracin on the degradation of a vasopressin receptor ligand with high affinity for the V1 and V2 vasopressin isoreceptors. European journal of clinical chemistry and clinical biochemistry : journal of the Forum of European Clinical Chemistry Societies. 32(2) : 61-4, 1994.
  • Durr JA. Determination of specific activity of labeled ligands by nonlinear regression analysis. The American journal of physiology. 265(5 Pt 1) : E728-35, 1993.
  • Durr JA, Hoffman WH, Sklar AH, el Gammal T, Steinhart CM. Correlates of brain edema in uncontrolled IDDM. Diabetes. 41(5) : 627-32, 1992.
  • Durr JA, Hensen J, Schrier RW. High specific activity 125I- and 35S-labeled vasopressin analogues with high affinity for the V1 and V2 vasopressin isoreceptors. The Journal of biological chemistry. 267(26) : 18453-8, 1992.
  • Durr JA, Hoffman WH, Hensen J, Sklar AH, el Gammal T, Steinhart CM. Osmoregulation of vasopressin in diabetic ketoacidosis. The American journal of physiology. 259(5 Pt 1) : E723-8, 1990.
  • Durr JA, Miller NL, Alfrey AC. Lithium clearance derived from the natural trace blood and urine lithium levels. Kidney international. Supplement. 28: S58-62, 1990.
  • Miller NL, Durr JA, Alfrey AC. Measurement of endogenous lithium levels in serum and urine by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry: a method with potential clinical applications. Analytical biochemistry. 182(2) : 245-9, 1989.
  • Mason PA, Durr JA, Bhaskaran D, Freed CR. Plasma osmolality predicts extracellular fluid catechol concentrations in the lateral hypothalamus. Journal of neurochemistry. 51(2) : 552-60, 1988.
  • Cosby RL, Sophocles AM, Durr JA, Perrinjaquet CL, Yee B, Schrier RW. Elevated plasma atrial natriuretic factor and vasopressin in high-altitude pulmonary edema. Annals of internal medicine. 109(10) : 796-9, 1988.
  • Bell PE, Hossack KF, Gabow PA, Durr JA, Johnson AM, Schrier RW. Hypertension in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Kidney international. 34(5) : 683-90, 1988.
  • Durr JA, Hoggard JG, Hunt JM, Schrier RW. Diabetes insipidus in pregnancy associated with abnormally high circulating vasopressinase activity. The New England journal of medicine. 316(17) : 1070-4, 1987.
  • Durr JA, Stamoutsos B, Lindheimer MD. Osmoregulation during pregnancy in the rat. Evidence for resetting of the threshold for vasopressin secretion during gestation. The Journal of clinical investigation. 68(2) : 337-46, 1981.

Positions Held

  • Instructor (Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Chicago 1979 - 1981)
  • Chief (Nephrology Section, Bay Pines VA Medical Center 1992 - 2003)
  • Associate Professor (Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado 1992 - 1992)
  • Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado 1985 - 1992)
  • Instructor (Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado 1983 - 1984)