Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick the contrast dye you get before an MRI.

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

In the lungs, this leads to the buildup of abnormally thick, sticky mucus, chronic lung infections and progressive lung damage that eventually leads to death for many patients. The median age of ...

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When the UCLA team gave Cilengitide to mice with low type 5 collagen, it slowed down the scarring and kidney damage.

Cysts, fibrosis, and tubular degeneration form the typical triad of pathologies leading to the gradual decline in kidney ...

Researchers have identified type 5 collagen as a key factor in kidney fibrosis, revealing its potential as a biomarker to predict chronic kidney disease progression. A repurposed anti-cancer drug, ...

New UCLA research conducted using mouse models and human genetic data has uncovered a critical factor that determines how much scarring occurs following kidney injury, leading scientists to identify a ...