Chronic kidney disease can quietly reshape a life long before the first lab test comes back abnormal. More than 700 million ...

High blood pressure could do more damage than you think.A research team from the Medical University of Vienna has discovered ...

Two types of parietal podocyte were previously described in the Bowman capsule: one characterized by coexpression of podocyte and parietal epithelial cell markers, the other characterized by ...

While diabetes has long been known to harm the kidneys, this study confirms that high blood pressure can also cause direct ...

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...

IgA nephropathy is an autoimmune kidney disease, and complement, a component of the innate immune system, plays a role in the condition's pathogenesis. Investigators have developed and tested a novel ...

Unlike other human stem cells, Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) can be produced directly from adult cells. Now, researchers have shown that human kidney podocytes produced from iPS cells via ...

CCL5 is a signaling molecule, or chemokine, that helps immune cells move toward sites of inflammation. It was first identified in T cells, but later research showed that it is also produced by other ...

A newly-established protocol offers hope for kidney disease modeling, drug discovery, and potential cell therapies. Previous work from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University established a protocol ...

BUFFALO, NY-August 8, 2023 – A new research paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 15, Issue 14, entitled, “Inhibiting ...

A fasting-mimicking diet may promote renoprotection by reducing proteinuria and improving endothelial function. Cycles of controlled fasting may promote regeneration of podocytes in patients with ...