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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Glomerulus merupakan bagian dari ginjal yang terdiri dari jaringan kapiler. sistem ekskresi manusia, terutama pada sistem filtrasi ginjal. Secara anatomi, glomerulus merupakan jaringan pembuluh darah ...

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.

When insects search for food, a sexual mate or the ideal place for laying eggs – somewhere where the hatching larvae have a good chance to survive – they have to rely on their sense of smell. They use ...

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