In a new study published in Kidney International, researchers report that drugs known as SGLT2 inhibitors prevented ...

How can long-term space flight influence astronaut health, and specifically their organs? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a large team of ...

The kidney's proximal tubule reabsorbs water, glucose, ions and other small molecules from the urine and thus maintains the ...

A robust model, such as aProximate TM, is required to study renal dysfunction and perform in vitro kidney disease modeling. This model expresses all transporters specialized in drug, solute, and ...

A loss of salt and body fluid can stimulate kidney regeneration and repair in mice, according to a NIH-funded study led by USC Stem Cell scientist Janos Peti-Peterdi and published in The Journal of ...

For those with kidney failure, a transplant is often the greatest promise of a healthier, longer life. Yet thousands wait years for a match that never comes. Incompatibility of blood type is one of ...

Translational medicine researchers used the Mimetas® human kidney glomerulus-on-a-chip to investigate potential pharmaceutical interventions for patients with a severe kidney disease called focal ...

Objective For most children with kidney failure, a decision is made to commence kidney replacement therapies (KRT); however, ...