Renal injury in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients may be related to a combination of factors including chemotherapy, radiation, infection, immunosuppressive agents, ischemia, and ...

The application of molecular techniques to characterize clinical kidney biopsies has the potential to provide insights into glomerular diseases that cannot be revealed by traditional renal pathology.

Patients with moderate to severe diabetic glomerulosclerosis had higher risks. The presence and severity of diabetic glomerulosclerosis appear to be important factors in the prognosis of patients with ...

Each kidney is made up of approximately one million glomeruli. These filter nitrogenous wastes (like urea and creatinine) from the blood, passing through the tuft of capillaries that make up a ...

Steroids, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil are options. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is not a single disease but a histologic pattern of renal damage ...

(Boston)--Researchers have published a new study that suggests a signaling pathway called ROBO2 is a therapeutic target for kidney diseases, specifically kidney podocyte injury and glomerular diseases ...

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Researchers have published a new study that suggests a signaling pathway called ROBO2 is a therapeutic target for kidney diseases, specifically kidney podocyte injury and glomerular diseases. Kidney ...

Floyd D. Wilson, Robert W. Wills, Carlos Gabriel Senties-Cue, William R. Maslin, Philip A. Stayer and Danny L. Magee During the routine histologie evaluation of an outbreak of inclusion body hepatitis ...