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Disease-a-Month, 2015 In his review article in the March 2015 edition ofCME, Prof. A M Meyers refers to chronic kidneydisease as 'an important disease group that threatenshealth'. I fully concur with this observation andwish to go a step further and assert that kidneydisease, together with other related non-communicable diseases(NCDs), poses not only a threat to health but ...
Catherine E. Langston, Adam E. Eatroff
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Vanishing kidney disease [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2013 A 60-year-old woman with a known case of diabetes mellitus for last 25 years, presented to our emergency department with symptoms of severe colicky pain in the right lumbar region and paraumbilical region of abdomen and recurrent episodes of vomiting the day before admission. Her family doctor recently moved her on to insulin as her blood sugar was not
Gopal Chandra, Ghosh +3 more
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Transplantation in children [PDF]
, 1976 Kidney transplantation in very young children, less than 2 years of age, has usually failed, mainly because of difficulties maintaining these patients on hemodialysis long enough to permit retransplantation after loss of the original graft.
Charles W. Putnam +15 more
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Diabetes and kidney cancer: A direct or indirect association? [PDF]
, 2010 A positive association between diabetes and kidney cancer has been reported in several investigations, but it is unclear whether diabetes or its complications account for this association.
Bahij S. Nuwayhid +4 more
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Journal of Translational Medicine, 2023 Background Pericyte-myofibroblast transition (PMT) has been confirmed to contribute to renal fibrosis in several kidney diseases, and transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) is a well-known cytokine that drives PMT.
Liangmei Chen +13 more
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Progress of small ubiquitin-related modifiers in kidney diseases
Chinese Medical Journal, 2019 . Objective:. Small ubiquitin-related modifiers (SUMOs) are a group of post-translational modification proteins extensively expressed in eukaryotes. Abnormal SUMOylation can lead to the development of various diseases.
Ou Li +6 more
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Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins in Kidney Disease
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 The seven members of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding protein family (IGFBPs) were initially considered to be the regulatory proteins of IGFs in the blood circulation, mainly as the subsequent reserve for bidirectional regulation of IGF ...
Shuqiang Wang +4 more
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Inhalation of mercury vapor can cause the toxic effects on rat kidney [PDF]
, 2016 Dental amalgam has been used in dentistry as a filling material. The filler comprises mercury (Hg). It is considered one of the most important and widespread environmental pollutants, which poses a serious potential threat for the humans and animals ...
Akgul, Hayati Murat +5 more
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BMC Nephrology, 2020 Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by inflammation, injury and fibrosis. Dysregulated innate immune responses mediated by macrophages play critical roles in progressive renal injury. The differentiation and polarization of macrophages into pro-
Hewang Lee +4 more
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The emerging role of cellular senescence in renal diseases [PDF]
, 2020 Cellular senescence represents the state of irreversible cell cycle arrest during cell division. Cellular senescence not only plays a role in diverse biological events such as embryogenesis, tissue regeneration and repair, ageing and tumour occurrence ...
Alpini, Gianfranco +12 more
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