The kidney is a major site of organ ... to the glomerulus or more distal parts of the nephron may also cause secondary injury to proximal tubules. Detection of proximal tubule injury might thus ...

Renal hypoplasia, defined as abnormally small kidneys with normal morphology and reduced nephron number, is a common cause of pediatric renal failure and adult-onset disease. Genetic studies ...

Death was due to uremia caused by the lower-nephron nephrosis ... in the areas draining into these tubules. We can only conjecture about the effect on the kidneys of transient or persistent ...

continue along the nephron tubule to the collecting ducts as urine. This eventually passes down to the bladder. In carrying out these processes, the kidney is able to fulfil its functions of ...

Each kidney contains over one million microscopic filtering units called nephrons. Each nephron is made of a tubule and is responsible for 'cleaning' the blood by removing urea and excess water ...

This image shows a reconstitution of nephron structures by propagated nephron progenitors derived from human iPS cells. Yellow arrowheads: glomeruli, Black arrowheads: renal tubules. Scale bar: 20 ...

Unfortunately, kidneys struggle in the modern world ... which the team believes may constitute one of the signals for nephron ...

are drugs that act directly on the kidneys to promote diuresis (urine flow) by inhibiting the sodium/chloride cotransporter ...