Correlation of serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels and clinical outcome in hormone-independent (HI) prostate cancer (PC) patients (PTS) treated with docetaxel No significant financial relationships to ...

Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract encompass a broad spectrum of developmental defects that may affect nephron number, renal architecture and urinary outflow. Reduced nephron ...

In videos created by the Hughes Lab to visualize the process, adjacent nephrons form one after the other, as if they were following a beat. “It’s still a hypothesis,” adds Hughes, “but we think that ...

“You’re on a chemotherapeutic and your oncologist may say that your dosage is X, while a nephrologist is telling you that the proximal tubules in your kidneys can’t handle it. You’re harming them.” ...

In some cases, damage to the kidney's nephrons can be slowed with lifestyle changes, but, unlike the liver, bones and skin, which can regrow damaged tissue, kidneys have a limited capacity to ...

A pair of USC Stem Cell mouse studies detail how progenitor cells self-renew, differentiate, and aggregate into early kidney structures, offering insights for the creation of stem cell-based ...