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Immunological Reviews, 2022 SummaryDysregulation and accelerated activation of the alternative pathway (AP) of complement is known to cause or accentuate several pathologic conditions in which kidney injury leads to the appearance of hematuria and proteinuria and ultimately to the development of chronic renal failure.
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Kidney age, not kidney disease [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018 KEY POINTS Although a variety of conditions and syndromes may affect the kidneys over either chronic or acute time frames, the term “chronic kidney disease” (CKD) is used to describe a decrease in the filtration ability of the glomerular capillaries in the kidney.
Stevens, Richard J +10 more
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Kidney: polycystic kidney disease [PDF]
WIREs Developmental Biology, 2014 Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a life‐threatening genetic disorder characterized by the presence of fluid‐filled cysts primarily in the kidneys. PKD can be inherited as autosomal recessive (ARPKD) or autosomal dominant (ADPKD) traits. Mutations in either the PKD1 or PKD2 genes, which encode polycystin 1 and polycystin 2, are the underlying cause of
Binu M, Paul, Gregory B, Vanden Heuvel
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Polycystic Kidney Disease [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 1989 The Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic disease which is characterized by the gradual emergence of cystic lesions in the kidneys, which replace the renal parenchyma causing deterioration of its function to stage 5. The PKD is one of the causes of Chronic Kidney Disease on renal replacement therapy (RRT).
Lavie, C.J. +3 more
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Bone Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Transplant
Nutrients, 2022 Chronic Kidney Disease–Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) comprises alterations in calcium, phosphorus, parathyroid hormone (PTH), Vitamin D, and fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23) metabolism, abnormalities in bone turnover, mineralization, volume, linear growth or strength, and vascular calcification leading to an increase in bone fractures and ...
Bellorin-Font, Ezequiel +2 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2015 CD74 (invariant MHC class II) regulates protein trafficking and is a receptor for macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) and d-dopachrome tautomerase (d-DT/MIF-2). CD74 expression is increased in tubular cells and/or glomerular podocytes and parietal cells in human metabolic nephropathies, polycystic kidney disease, graft rejection and kidney ...
Lara eValiño-Rivas +7 more
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Is “chronic kidney disease” a disease? [PDF]
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2018 AbstractSeveral philosophers of medicine have attempted to answer the question “what is disease?” In current clinical practice, an umbrella term “chronic kidney disease” (CKD) encompasses a wide range of kidney health states from commonly prevalent subclinical, asymptomatic disease to rare end‐stage renal disease requiring transplant or dialysis to ...
Smart, B, Stevens, R, Verbakel, J
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Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2019 Stem cell therapy has been applied in many fields. Basic and clinical studies on stem cell therapy for acute kidney injury (AKI) have been conducted. Stem cells have been found to exert renal protection through a variety of mechanisms, such as regulating
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Khyber Medical University Journal, 2020 OBJECTIVE: To compare the successful outcome of flap versus no-flap in O’Conor & Sokol technique for simple vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) repair. METHODS: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in department of Urology, Institute of Kidney Diseases,
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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2015 The kidney is arguably the most important target of microvascular damage in diabetes. A substantial proportion of individuals with diabetes will develop kidney disease owing to their disease and/or other co-morbidity, including hypertension and ageing-related nephron loss.
Thomas, Merlin C. +8 more
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