Chronic kidney disease is a condition in which kidney function declines, causing significant health issues in patients. A previous study led by Dr. Motoko Yanagita found that tertiary lymphoid tissues (TLTs), which develop ...
Aug 31, 2023
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Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering, is reporting the first use of the powerful imaging mass cytometry (IMC) to examine the kidneys of patients with lupus (systemic ...
Aug 17, 2023
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The gold standard test for predicting the onset of diabetic kidney disease is the albuminuria test. However, detecting albuminuria alone has limited sensitivity and specificity in end-stage renal failure with a decreased ...
Jun 13, 2023
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Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered that the overexpression of a transcription factor prevented bone loss in mouse models of chronic kidney disease, according to a recent study published in the Journal of ...
Jun 5, 2023
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About 3 million Americans live with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices—commonly known as pacemakers. These small electronic devices implanted in the chest or abdomen are typically used to treat slow or irregular ...
May 23, 2023
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an independent risk factor for heart diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes or heart failure. A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass ...
Mar 8, 2023
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People who are overweight or obese have a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, but exactly how that happens is not well understood.
Jan 11, 2023
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A team of scientists led by Duke-NUS Medical School have identified an important pathway that gets disrupted in the advanced form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease known as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)—and intervening ...
Sep 21, 2022
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A team of researchers from Korea University College of Medicine, the University of California and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging reports that transfusing young mice with blood from older mice makes them grow fatigued ...
Using skin biopsy samples, investigators found that patients with severe COVID-19 had clots in small venous and arterial blood vessels in skin that appears normal. This was not seen in the skin of patents with other types ...
Jul 14, 2022
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