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Engineered Kidney Tubules for Modeling Patient-Specific Diseases and Drug Discovery

EBioMedicine, 2018
The lack of engineering systems able to faithfully reproduce complex kidney structures in vitro has made it difficult to efficiently model kidney diseases and development.
Valentina Benedetti, Valerio Brizi, Patrizia Guida, Susanna Tomasoni, Osele Ciampi, Elena Angeli, Ugo Valbusa, Ariela Benigni, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Christodoulos Xinaris   +9 more
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Insulin Resistance: An Update on Biochemical and Pathophysiological Mechanisms and Impact on Various Diseases

iNew Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insulin resistance is the biological phenomenon in which the human body's normal response to the metabolic hormone insulin is compromised. Insulin is a regulator of most of the essential metabolic steps in the body that control energy homoeostasis, so dysregulation leads to multiple diverse human diseases including, most prominently, Type 2 ...
Peter J. Little, Stefan Offermanns, Haaglim Cho, Zhiping Liu, Pinglian Yang, Qiaozhu Su, Henry Wade, Wah Yang, Danielle Kamato, Neale Cohen, Alex Bobik, Iqra Ilyas, Suowen Xu   +12 more
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Polycystic liver disease with huge infected cyst displacing the pancreas, inferior vena cava and right kidney

Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 2016
Multiple liver cysts can be an isolated disease (isolated polycystic liver disease [PLD]) or they can be part of multi-organ involvement in other diseases, such as adult autosomal dominant polycystic disease (APD), which is the most frequently inherited ...
Adil H Al-Harthi, Patan M Khan, Marwan Al Marwani   +2 more
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Renal ultrasound after first febrile urinary tract infection in hospitalized children: The ROUTINE prospective observational study protocol

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common reason for hospitalization in young children. American and Canadian guidelines recommend universal renal ultrasound after a first febrile UTI to identify genitourinary abnormalities that require further management, despite limited supporting evidence. The Renal ultrasOund after first febrile
Sanjay Mahant, Keenjal Mistry, Ann Bayliss, Nicholas Barrowman, Karen Born, Cornelia Borkhoff, Raman Chawla, David D'Arienzo, Aurelie D'Hondt, Kim De Castris‐Garcia, Joana Dos Santos, Olivier Drouin, Ricardo Faingold, Vince Albert Flores, Jessica Foulds, Jeremy Friedman, Lucy Giglia, Joanna Holland, Radha Jetty, Kristopher Kang, Patricia Li, Grace Leo, Armando Lorenzo, Elise Lu, Colin Macarthur, Kyle Millar, Myla E. Moretti, Nassr Nama, Olivia Ostrow, Rachel Pearl, Patricia Parkin, Mandy Rickard, Mahmoud Sakran, Anupam Sehgal, Nader Shaikh, Sepideh Taheri, Otto G. Vanderkooi, Gemma Vomiero, Kim Zhou, Peter J. Gill, the Canadian Paediatric Inpatient Research Network (PIRN)   +40 more
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c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling contributes to cystic burden in polycystic kidney disease.

PLoS Genetics, 2021
Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited degenerative disease in which the uriniferous tubules are replaced by expanding fluid-filled cysts that ultimately destroy organ function.
Abigail O Smith, Julie A Jonassen, Kenley M Preval, Roger J Davis, Gregory J Pazour   +4 more
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Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping of Kidney Stones: An Ex Vivo MRI Phantom Study

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose To visualize and characterize the five most common kidney stone types based on their magnetic susceptibilities in MRI using QSM. Methods Three water‐based agar phantoms were constructed, containing a total of 53 ex vivo kidney stones of varying types and sizes.
Lion H. Mücke, Frederik B. Laun, Ruben de Figueiredo Cardoso, Guillaume Flé, Jennifer Lorenz, Alexander Fichte, Michael Uder, Nadine Bayerl, Jannis Hanspach   +8 more
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Polycystic Kidney Disease in Cats

Veterinary Quarterly, 1998
(1998). Polycystic Kidney Disease in Cats. Veterinary Quarterly: Vol. 20, Voorjaarsdagen Congress 1998, pp. S112-S113.
J T, Bosje, T S, van den Ingh
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SURMOUNT‐REAL UK: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial to Assess the Effectiveness of Tirzepatide in Adults With Obesity

Obesity, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective SURMOUNT‐REAL UK will evaluate the effectiveness of tirzepatide when offered in addition to standard‐of‐care (SoC) in adults with Class I obesity (BMI ≥ 30 and ≤ 34.9 kg/m2) and without diabetes in a UK primary care setting. Methods A 5‐year, phase 4, multicenter, open‐label, pragmatic randomized clinical trial is enabled through ...
Martin K. Rutter, Julie Mount, J. Martin Gibson, Joanne Webb, Cheryl Marler, Catherine Reed, Mugdha Gore, Wenyu Ye, Elisa Gomez Valderas, John Wilding, Naveed Sattar, Melanie J. Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, Richard Haynes, Rachel L. Batterham   +14 more
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Cross Sectional Study of Prenatal Diagnosis Uptake Among Individuals With Genetic Conditions

Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Prenatal diagnostic genetic testing allows for early identification of significant fetal conditions and enables informed decision‐making regarding management options. The aim of this study was to assess prenatal testing practice among individuals with genetic conditions.
Ebunoluwa Ojo, Roni Zemet, Allyson Nevins, Katherine Abraham, April D. Adams   +4 more
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Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2006
Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is an inherited disease characterized by a malformation complex which includes cystically dilated tubules in the kidneys and ductal plate malformation in the liver.
L.F. Menezes, L.F. Onuchic
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