The pathological process of glomerulonephritis (GN) includes glomerular capillary damage, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has an important role in glomerular capillary repair in GN. We ...

Prematurity is often complicated by respiratory support, including invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and noninvasive support (NIS). Compared with IMV, NIS reduces injury to the lung and brain.

Initially, the researchers observed the specific expression of ADGRF5 within endothelial cells that line the glomerular capillary wall. In mice with genetic knockout of ADGRF5, the GFB was affected by ...

From the renal section, Boston University School of Medicine, and the Department of Internal Medicine and the Mallory Institute of Pathology (address reprint requests to Ramzi S. Cotran at the Mallory ...

Glomerulonephritis (GN) is a condition in which the kidneys are inflamed. The glomeruli are the filtering mechanism of the kidneys. They consist of a tuft of highly coiled capillaries cupped in a ...

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 ...

In patients with diabetic nephropathy, glomerulopathy is an important renal structural change. The kidney consists of four basic tissue types: vessels, glomeruli, tubules, and interstitium. Each of ...

In a world first, Kumamoto University researchers have shown mouse kidney capillaries successfully connecting to kidney tissue which was derived from human iPS cells. This achievement shows that human ...

A significant step forward has been taken in the area of kidney regenerative medicine! Researchers at Kumamoto University in Japan transplanted kidney tissue made from human induced pluripotent stem ...