Researchers have long understood that PKD is associated with kidney cysts and fibrosis and a gradual decline in renal ...

Kidney cancer-- also called renal cell cancer-- is a disease in which kidney cells become malignant (cancerous) and grow out of control, forming a tumor. Almost all kidney cancers first appear in ...

As the kidneys become more damaged, the kidney tubules can leak glucose into the urine. Renal (kidney) glycosuria happens ...

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Among the findings, Susztak and her colleagues discovered that proximal tubule cells are one "hotbed" of disease-causing variants. These cells play various kidney-function roles including ...

Renal progenitor cells and kidney growth As outlined above ... BRN1 commits cells to becoming cells of the Henle's loop and distal tubules. Irx genes, possibly together with BRN1, control the ...

A marker of kidney antioxidant activity and a marker ... Whether afamin indicates the health of the glomerular filtration barrier or renal tubules remains to be elucidated. Urinary marinobufagenin ...

In patients with renal insufficiency associated ... even in advanced chronic kidney disease; cysts derived from proximal tubules, but not those derived from distal tubules, contained increased ...

a condition caused by damage to the renal tubules in the kidneys. Nearly 20 percent were receiving treatment with steroid drugs. Of the 110 patients who underwent kidney biopsies, 47 percent had ...