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3D Kidneys and Kidney Tumor Semantic Segmentation using Boundary-Aware Networks [PDF]
MICCAI Kidney Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2019, 2019 Automated segmentation of kidneys and kidney tumors is an important step in quantifying the tumor's morphometrical details to monitor the progression of the disease and accurately compare decisions regarding the kidney tumor treatment. Manual delineation techniques are often tedious, error-prone and require expert knowledge for creating unambiguous ...
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Glycogen synthase kinase-3β promotes cyst expansion in polycystic kidney disease
Kidney International, 2014 Polycystic kidney diseases (PKDs) are inherited disorders characterized by the formation of fluid filled renal cysts. Elevated cAMP levels in PKDs stimulate progressive cyst enlargement involving cell proliferation and transepithelial fluid secretion ...
Shixin Tao +6 more
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Aldosterone as a renal growth factor [PDF]
, 2010 Aldosterone regulates blood pressure through its effects on the cardiovascular system and kidney. Aldosterone can also contribute to the development of hypertension that leads to chronic pathologies such as nephropathy and renal fibrosis.
Dooley, Ruth +2 more
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Apoptosis in polycystic kidney disease
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2011 Apoptosis is the process of programmed cell death. It is a ubiquitous, controlled process consuming cellular energy and designed to avoid cytokine release despite activation of local immune cells, which clear the cell fragments. The process occurs during organ development and in maintenance of homeostasis.
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Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2018 Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most frequently occurring hereditary kidney disease, and axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) is one of the most frequently occurring rheumatic diseases.
Ozan Volkan Yurdakul +3 more
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A comprehensive review of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 This review was written to provide a comprehensive summary of the suggested etiologies of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka. In this review, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is explained in detail and its known etiologies are discussed.
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Clinical relevance of biomarkers of oxidative stress [PDF]
, 2015 SIGNIFICANCE Oxidative stress is considered to be an important component of various diseases. A vast number of methods have been developed and used in virtually all diseases to measure the extent and nature of oxidative stress, ranging from oxidation ...
Ana Cipak Gasparovic +32 more
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Molecular Diagnosis and Identification of Novel Pathogenic Variants in a Large Cohort of Italian Patients Affected by Polycystic Kidney Diseases. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2023 Nigro E +8 more
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Renal cell carcinoma in a cat with polycystic kidney disease undergoing renal transplantation
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2018 Case summary A 10-year-old spayed female American Shorthair cat underwent renal transplantation due to worsening chronic kidney disease secondary to polycystic kidney disease.
Daniel J Adams +2 more
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A dynamic graph-cuts method with integrated multiple feature maps for segmenting kidneys in ultrasound images [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Purpose: To improve kidney segmentation in clinical ultrasound (US) images, we develop a new graph cuts based method to segment kidney US images by integrating original image intensity information and texture feature maps extracted using Gabor filters.
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