The year 2015 has seen great progress in the renal fibrosis field, as key studies began to build a consensus on the importance of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, cell cycle arrest, and defective ...

SGLT2 inhibitors (gliflozins) were developed as oral antidiabetics. They enhance urinary glucose excretion by inhibiting SGLT-2 (sodium-dependent glucose co-transporter-2) in the renal tubuli. The ...

Eleven of 13 patients with far advanced chronic renal disease of diverse etiologies were found to have urine that remained hypotonic to plasma in spite of the administration of a supramaximal dose of ...

Researchers uncover a previously unrecognized mechanism that may accelerate polycystic kidney disease. For people with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), life can be a constant cycle of symptoms: aches ...

Niigata, Japan - The gold standard test for predicting the onset of diabetic kidney disease is albuminuria. However, detecting albuminuria alone has limited sensitivity and specificity in end-stage ...

Urea transporter (UT) proteins facilitate the passive transport of urea driven by a concentration gradient across the cell plasma membrane in some kidney and extrarenal cells The kidney expresses ...