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Nephropathy refers to damage to or disease of the kidney. An older term for this is nephrosis.

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Gene for devastating kidney disease discovered

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital have identified an important genetic cause of a devastating kidney disease that is the second leading cause of kidney failure in ...


Study shows how gene action may lead to diabetes prevention, cure

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A gene commonly studied by cancer researchers has been linked to the metabolic inflammation that leads to diabetes.


With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid

With Help from a Bacterium, Cockroaches Develop Way to Store Excess Uric Acid

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What life form can use materials as nutrients that we, and most other animals, would consider waste products?


Reduction in glycotoxins from heat-processing of foods reduces risk of chronic disease

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine report that cutting back on the consumption of processed and fried foods, which are high in toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), can reduce inflammation and ...


Help your kidneys: Pass on salt and diet soda

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Individuals who consume a diet high in sodium or artificially sweetened drinks are more likely to experience a decline in kidney function, according to two papers being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's annual ...


Link found between depression, early stages of chronic kidney disease

Link found between depression, early stages of chronic kidney disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

One in five patients with chronic kidney disease is depressed, even before beginning long-term dialysis therapy or developing end-stage renal disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.


U-M researchers discover therapeutic target that could help patients with pulmonary fibrosis

Researchers discover therapeutic target that could help patients with pulmonary fibrosis

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis is not much better than a death sentence: there is no treatment and the survival rate is less than three years.


Found: A gene that may play a role in type 1 diabetes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at Stanford University have identified a gene that may play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's insulin-producing cells. Insulin, a ...


Mutations in gene linked to ciliopathies

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have discovered a connection between mutations in the INPP5E gene and ciliopathies. Their findings, which ...


Study finds novel genetic risk factors for kidney disease

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers from the United States, the Netherlands and Iceland has identified three genes containing common mutations that are associated with altered kidney disease risk. One of the discovered genes, the UMOD ...


Researchers discover new fat-fighting pathway

Researchers discover new fat-fighting pathway

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a process that controls the amount of fat that cells store for use as a back-up energy source. Disruption of this process ...


Is it really only our kidneys that control blood pressure?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The problem of high blood pressure has reached pandemic proportions, causing premature death through heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease in a third of the UK population. For decades, scientists have battled at length ...


New gene variant identified for nondiabetic end stage renal disease in African-Americans

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 14, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Johns Hopkins schools of Public Health and Medicine have, for the first time, identified variants in the gene MYH9 that are associated with increased risk for non-diabetic end stage renal disease (ESRD,) which ...


Scientists discover new link in pathway to cancer: hope for drug design

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester scientists have identified an exciting connection between a cell’s extracellular environment and the activity of a signalling pathway molecule that controls the development of organs ...


Anemia drug not helpful for kidney disease patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

An international study authored by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has concluded that the anemia drug darbepoetin alfa works no better than a placebo in several other applications previously thought to be promising.