Due to the lack of self-renewal ability of podocytes, mild podocyte depletion triggers replacement and repair processes mostly driven by stem cells or resident parietal epithelial cells (PECs). In ...

1 Department of Nephrology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China 2 Department of Urology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of ...

A 3D engineered kidney glomerulus model replicates structural and mechanical features of the glomerular filtration barrier, ...

In vitro experiments used primary cultured podocytes harvested from mice carrying podocin-rtTA and TRE-hVEGF transgenes, in which hVEGF can be induced selectively. Induction of VEGF in PAN-exposed ...

§ Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 45, D-20146, Hamburg, Germany *Tel.: +66 22187627. Fax: +66 22187598. E-mail: [email protected]. Article ...

I never have buttermilk on hand unless I know I’ll be making buttermilk pie, which, to be honest, is a once-a-year event. I don’t miss it except on the occasional weekend when I make pancakes ...

“By the time we pick up the proteinuria, the patient has already lost one-third of her podocytes and nephrons,” she said. “Our goal should be to stop renal flares because our patients march ...

† State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China ‡ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of ...