The kidney – made up of about a million tiny units that work to filter blood, constantly rids the body of undesired waste products to form urine while holding back blood cells and valuable proteins, ...

Breakthrough in the development of an in vitro model of glomerulus helps understand mechanisms of injury in kidney disease, how to prevent kidney damage in individual patients, and monitor disease ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 7 (Apr. 1, 2003), pp. 4108-4113 (6 pages) Current interpretations of kidney function in terms of a coarse ...

The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a measure of how well your kidneys are removing waste from your blood, which can be determined using an estimated GFR (eGFR) test. The test gets its name from ...

This cell cluster may look jumbled, but it is well organized. Called a glomerulus, it’s a cluster of cells from a kidney; it filters and processes blood to maintain proper levels of water, salt, and ...

Gene therapy delivering protective vascular endothelial growth factor C into kidney filters reduced early diabetic kidney damage.

The kidneys contain millions of microscopic blood vessels known as peritubular capillaries. These vessels recapture helpful nutrients like glucose and minerals and return them to your bloodstream for ...

A study published in Advanced Healthcare Materials describes the bioengineering of three-dimensional (3D) kidney glomerular microtissues that replicate the glomerular filtration barrier (GFB) ...

Kidney complications are some of the most common and severe symptoms associated with Covid-19. Estimates show that 30% of people hospitalized for severe infection and 50% of those that are later ...