Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a family of genetic disorders that causes clusters of cysts to form on the kidney, is among the most common genetic disorders, affecting some 500,000 people in the ...

Your urine may seem like a routine bodily function, but it is an important diagnostic tool for determining kidney health.

Diabetic kidney ... immune cell infiltration into renal tissues and its inflammatory response’s role in disease progression. Concurrently, ferroptosis—a novel form of cell death—has emerged as a ...

Meanwhile, continuous renal replacement therapy, plasma exchange, and immunoglobulin infusion were performed, and rituximab was tried (2 × 500 mg intravenous infusions, each separated by 15 days) to ...

A newly published study in Genes & Diseases highlights the crucial role of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in the progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN) and explores its potential ...

Credit: Getty Images Stem cell therapies are emerging as potential treatments across the endocrinology realm, from diabetes to autoimmune thyroid disease to osteoporosis. Stem cells are becoming more ...

Circulating kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) predicts survival outcomes in patients with metastatic renal ... in clear cell and papillary RCC, but it is also expressed in proximal tubular kidney ...

To induce apoptosis in human proximal tubular epithelial cells ... This current research identified 11 distinct cell types in human diabetic kidney sequencing data (14), encompassing various ...