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

Vanderbilt researchers created the first high-res lipid atlas of the human kidney, mapping over 100,000 functional tissue units across 29 donors. This atlas is the most comprehensive of its kind ...

Each nephron has a glomerulus, which filters your blood, and a tubule, which removes the waste and returns what you need back to your blood. Your kidneys' filtering structures are called nephrons.

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.

Correlation between the percentage of tubules positive for IgG in TPRDs and proteinuria (g) in (A) all patients, (B) patients with proteinuria <3 g, and (C) patients with proteinuria ≥3 (g) ...

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) ...

The renal or kidney medulla is the inner part of the kidney. The medulla helps regulate the concentration of urine by filtering out water, salts, and acid. The National Institute of Diabetes and ...

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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