Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 7 (Apr. 1, 2003), pp. 4108-4113 (6 pages) Current interpretations of kidney function in terms of a coarse ...

Glomerulosclerosis refers to the scarring of the glomeruli in the kidneys following any type of insult. The glomeruli are the tiny loops of capillaries that rest on the special basement membrane which ...

Premature birth occurs when nephrogenesis is incomplete and has been linked to increased renal pathologies in the adult. Metabolic factors complicating preterm birth may have additional consequences ...

Chronic kidney diseases affect more than 10% of the world’s population, and most cases arise from disorders of the kidney’s filtration barrier, which is located within a million microvascular units ...

TEM from a murine renal glomerulus with podocytes, endothelial cells, basal lamina, and mesangial cells shown. The glomerulus is a dense network of capillaries surrounded by the Bowman’s capsule in ...

In three patients with typical lipoid nephrosis studied at the onset of their renal disorder, chronic sclerosing glomerulonephritis eventually developed over periods varying from one to 17 years. One ...

The kidney is a difficult organ to regenerate. However, in a big step forward for kidney regeneration research, a collaboration between scientists from Japan and the US has successfully demonstrated a ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kidneys work to constantly filter blood and remove toxins from the body. Conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD) are characterized by a reduced ability to perform ...

Research into kidney regeneration, an organ that has been extremely difficult to regenerate, has taken a great stride forward with research coming out of a collaboration between Kumamoto University, ...