If the patient has a full bladder, ask them to take their time and empty their bladder fully. (Some patients will quickly empty their bladder but not fully because they do not want to hold up the room.) After the bladder is emptied, the kidneys should then be rescanned to evaluate if...
"At Day 10, some cells' descendants were fully healed while others were not," Kumar said. "The cell lineage that healed had switched off SOX9 expression, while the unhealed lineage, in a continuing attempt to fully regenerate, maintained SOX9 activity. It's like a sensor that switches on w...
Our kidneys are responsible for cleaning out our blood and regulating the amount of fluid in our bodies; if they aren’t working well enough or if there is just too much gunk to deal with, you can end up with kidney stones or other ailments. Understanding space’s effects on the kidneys...
The proportion of renal B cells was much lower than other immune cell subsets such as T cells. These results did not exclude the clinical importance of renal B cells, because many B cells can infiltrate into tissues during disease or inflammation37. The intrarenal B-cell infiltrates are associa...
In light of the trend to decrease contrast agent dose, and because two of the most widely used macrocyclic ECCMs have long time not been approved in the United States, there has been a renewed interest in non-contrast enhanced (NCE) MRA. The newer NCE MRA techniques are based on the inf...
The effects of obesity on the kidneys are now better, although not fully understood. Obesity impacts the prevalence of renal cancer and renal calculi and influences the technical aspects associated with their treatment. It also impacts the functions of the urinary bladder with higher rates of ...
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we confirmed KIT protein expression specifically within ICs of the medulla that coexpressed TMEM213, but not the PC marker AQP2 (Fig.4f, g). This population also showed specific expression ofCALCAthat encodes for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) that is well-known for its roles in media...
Regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have addressed a major challenge in the quest to build replacement kidneys in the lab. Working with human-sized pig kidneys, the scientists developed the most successful method to da
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