The human kidney is a masterclass in biological engineering. Responsible for filtering approximately 50 gallons of blood ...

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As tubule branching continues, each additional branch caused a pulse of mechanical stress, which the team believes may constitute one of the signals for nephron formation.

Proteinuria and proximal tubular epithelial cells: correlation between immunofluorescence, histology, and degree of proteinuria ...

As tubule branching continues, they found that each additional branch caused a pulse of mechanical stress, which the team believes may constitute one of the signals for nephron formation.

As tubule branching continues, they found that each additional branch caused a pulse of mechanical stress, which the team believes may constitute one of the signals for nephron formation.

Mouse kidney nephron progenitor cells (purple) forming the developing nephron tubules (yellow) of the kidney’s filtering units, the nephrons. (Image by Helena Bugacov/McMahon Lab) ...

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Each human kidney is made up of about a million filtering units called nephrons. I aim to reveal the mechanisms behind a key stage of nephron development during which a structure known as an S-shaped ...

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