A specialized low-salt fasting-mimicking diet revives kidney function in preclinical animal models and patients with chronic ...

National Kidney Foundation. High blood pressure and chronic kidney disease. MedlinePlus. Glomerulus and nephron. Autoimmune Association. What is IgA nephropathy?. American Kidney Fund. Lupus ...

The hepatitis E virus affects the liver. But infected liver cells secrete a viral protein that reacts with antibodies in the ...

The kidney problems of Goodpasture syndrome are due to a condition called glomerulonephritis. That just refers to inflammation of a specific part of the kidney called the glomerulus. This leads to ...

Cells expressing PAX8 (nucleus, red) considered podocyte precursors, line the outer Bowman’s capsule. Activated during the low salt-fasting mimicking diet (LS-FMD), the cells migrate and ...

Kidney stones are hard objects made from chemicals in your pee. They may be as tiny as a grain of salt or as big as a corn kernel. The stones can be brown or yellow, smooth or rough. They're a ...

1 Department of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2 Student Research Committee, ...

The variables and the formulae used to calculate them are provided in Table 1. Area-dependent (extensive) variables such as glomeruli counts were used to derive area-independent intensive variables by ...

Hepatitis E Virus, or HEV, is a viral infection that generates inflammation of the liver. The disease is commonly transmitted through contact with contamin | Immunology ...

Melanie Hoenig was teaching first-year medical students how to estimate kidney function when one of them, Cameron Nutt, raised his hand. Why, he asked, did the diagnostic algorithm include an ...