Only the walls of the kidney blood vessels are somewhat thickened in the rats with the mutated PDE3A gene and hypertension (right). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

High blood sugar damages blood vessels in the kidneys ... there is potential for the medication to be officially labeled for kidney protection. Such a development would open the door for more ...

In a breakthrough study, researchers in California have successfully grown blood vessels from kidney patients' own skin cells, a development that will increase the ease and safety of dialysis.

In this procedure, patients are connected to a dialysis machine which acts as an artificial kidney ... of the blood. Unfiltered blood that is high in urea is taken from a blood vessel in the ...

In this procedure, patients are connected to a dialysis machine which acts as an artificial kidney ... of the blood. Unfiltered blood that is high in urea is taken from a blood vessel in the ...

Glomerulus, the fundamental filtering unit of the kidney, is an intricate network of capillaries -; small blood vessels that regulate ... from the Department of Anatomy, Kyorin University School ...