The biological function of integrin-linked kinase on bone formation by Yu-ling Liu, Yue-ming Mei, Jing-qiong Xun, Zhuo-yue Lv, Qian He, Zhou-bo-ran Liu, Lin Li, Fen Xie, Ru-chun Dai

“…At present, the regulation effect of ILK in bone formation attracts the attention of researchers. …”
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Addressing the pathophysiology of venous thrombosis and chronic kidney disease in sickle cell trait using a mouse model by Fatima Trebak, Mohammad O. Sako, Steven P. Grover, Karnsasin Seanoon, Izabela Pawlinski, Chatphatai Moonla, Michael W. Henderson, Vimal K. Derebail, Dougald M. Monroe, Patrick Ellsworth, Rafal Pawlinski, Malgorzata Kasztan, Nigel S. Key

“…We demonstrated that the harsh environment within the inner medulla induces RBC sickling in vitro and in vivo and is associated with kidney-related pathologies, including impaired urinary concentration, albuminuria, and declining renal function, closely mimicking those seen in human SCT. …”
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Cadaveric kidney allograft transplantation using the Da Vinci robotic surgical system. Initial experience in the Russian Federation by V. L. Medvedev, V. A. Porkhanov, K. E. Chernov, S. N. Volkov, G. A. Palaguta, O. V. Arepyeva, E. V. Gerdel

“…Studies have shown that robotic surgery facilitates kidney transplantation under optimal ergonomic position for the surgeon, with functional results and patient safety comparable to those obtained under an open approach. …”
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Integrated pan-cancer analysis and experimental verification of the roles of ZBED3 in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma by Shaobo Wu, Min Yang, Qiurong Zhao, Cheng Zhang, Xiaohe Luo

“…Abstract The present study investigated the Zinc finger BED-type containing 3 (ZBED3) mRNA expression levels, diagnostic and prognostic values, co-expressed and differentially expressed genes, immune infiltration, and functional enrichment analysis in patients with kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) using various public databases such as The Cancer Genome Atlas, Genotype-Tissue Expression Project, LinkedOmics, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis databases, and the Xiantao academic tool. …”
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Atrial Fibrillation Types and Chronic Kidney Disease are Independent Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence After Radiofrequency Ablation by Mo P, Fan C, Chen J, Wang Y, Xiao W, Peng Z, Lin XZ, Luo CF, Zhang C

“…Therefore, personalized treatment regimens should be recommended for different AF patients.Keywords: atrial fibrillation, radiofrequency ablation, chronic kidney disease…”
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Development and Validation in Porcine and Human Models of a Bioimpedance Spectroscopy System for the Objective Assessment of Kidney Graft Viability by David Naranjo-Hernández, Javier Reina-Tosina, Laura M. Roa, Gerardo Barbarov-Rostán, Jorge Calvillo-Arbizu, Alejandro Talaminos-Barroso, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Valdivia, Rafael A. Medina-López

“…This work presents an innovative bioimpedance spectroscopy device, developed as a support tool for decision-making during the evaluation of kidney viability for renal transplantation. …”
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Specificities of transplantation of kidneys procured from donors with situs inversus totalis: A case report and review of the literature by Petrović Milica, Rabrenović Violeta, Stamenković Dušica, Vavić Neven, Kovačević Zoran, Ignjatović Ljiljana, Jovanović Dragan, Antić Svetlana, Milović Novak, Tomić Aleksandar, Bančević Vladimir

“…A 20-month follow-up of the donor’s kidney and graft in the recipient proved that their functions were excellent. …”
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The Effect of Spice and Herbs Mixture on Electrolytes and Liver and Renal Function in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Muhammad Khattak, Nor Mohd-Shukri, Tahir Mahmood, Qamaruddin Ahmed, Mehran Rahimlou

“…The concentration of triglycerides (TG) decreased notably with increasing doses of spices and herbs.Conclusion: Consumption of spices and herbs mixture was demonstrated to have beneficial effects on kidney and liver function, blood glucose level and lipid profile in T2DM patients. …”
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A simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation for type 1 diabetes mellitus after a long-term of receiving hemodialysis renal replacement therapy. Clinical сase by R. Kh. Salimkhanov, M. I. Yevloyeva, A. S. Severina, M. Sh. Shamkhalova, N. P. Trubitsyna, Y. G. Moysyuk

“…At the present time, a simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPKT) is an effective method of treatment for patients on renal replacement therapy by hemodialysis program in the outcome of the terminal stage of diabetic nephropathy. …”
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Case report on prolonged kidney graft survival without immunosuppressive therapy after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by N. V. Shmarina, N. V. Borovkova, E. S. Stolyarevich, V. A. Vasilyeva, R. V. Storozhev, I. V. Dmitriev, A. G. Balkarov, E. N. Parovichnikova

“…With no immunosuppressive therapy for more than four years, the kidney recipient showed stable, satisfactory graft function.Conclusion. …”
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Description and Cross-Sectional Analyses of 25,880 Adults and Children in the UK National Registry of Rare Kidney Diseases Cohort by Katie Wong, David Pitcher, Fiona Braddon, Lewis Downward, Retha Steenkamp, Sherry Masoud, Nicholas Annear, Jonathan Barratt, Coralie Bingham, Richard J. Coward, Tina Chrysochou, David Game, Sian Griffin, Matt Hall, Sally Johnson, Durga Kanigicherla, Fiona Karet Frankl, David Kavanagh, Larissa Kerecuk, Eamonn R. Maher, Shabbir Moochhala, Jenny Pinney, John A. Sayer, Roslyn Simms, Smeeta Sinha, Shalabh Srivastava, Frederick W.K. Tam, Kay Thomas, A. Neil Turner, Stephen B. Walsh, Aoife Waters, Patricia Wilson, Edwin Wong, Karla Therese L. Sy, Kui Huang, Jamie Ye, Dorothea Nitsch, Moin Saleem, Detlef Bockenhauer, Kate Bramham, Daniel P. Gale, Sharirose Abat, Shazia Adalat, Joy Agbonmwandolor, Zubaidah Ahmad, Abdulfattah Alejmi, Rashid Almasarwah, Nicholas Annear, Ellie Asgari, Amanda Ayers, Jyoti Baharani, Gowrie Balasubramaniam, Felix Jo-Bamba Kpodo, Tarun Bansal, Alison Barratt, Jonathan Barratt, Megan Bates, Natalie Bayne, Janet Bendle, Sarah Benyon, Carsten Bergmann, Sunil Bhandari, Coralie Bingham, Preetham Boddana, Sally Bond, Fiona Braddon, Kate Bramham, Angela Branson, Stephen Brearey, Vicky Brocklebank, Sharanjit Budwal, Conor Byrne, Hugh Cairns, Brian Camilleri, Gary Campbell, Alys Capell, Margaret Carmody, Marion Carson, Tracy Cathcart, Christine Catley, Karine Cesar, Melanie Chan, Houda Chea, James Chess, Chee Kay Cheung, Katy-Jane Chick, Nihil Chitalia, Martin Christian, Tina Chrysochou, Katherine Clark, Christopher Clayton, Rhian Clissold, Helen Cockerill, Joshua Coelho, Elizabeth Colby, Viv Colclough, Eileen Conway, H. Terence Cook, Wendy Cook, Theresa Cooper, Richard J. Coward, Sarah Crosbie, Gabor Cserep, Anjali Date, Katherine Davidson, Amanda Davies, Neeraj Dhaun, Ajay Dhaygude, Lynn Diskin, Abhijit Dixit, Eunice Ann Doctolero, Suzannah Dorey, Lewis Downard, Mark Drayson, Gavin Dreyer, Tina Dutt, Kufreabasi Etuk, Dawn Evans, Jenny Finch, Frances Flinter, James Fotheringham, Lucy Francis, Daniel P. Gale, Hugh Gallagher, David Game, Eva Lozano Garcia, Madita Gavrila, Susie Gear, Colin Geddes, Mark Gilchrist, Matt Gittus, Paraskevi Goggolidou, Christopher Goldsmith, Patricia Gooden, Andrea Goodlife, Priyanka Goodwin, Tassos Grammatikopoulos, Barry Gray, Megan Griffith, Steph Gumus, Sanjana Gupta, Patrick Hamilton, Lorraine Harper, Tess Harris, Louise Haskell, Samantha Hayward, Shivaram Hegde, Bruce Hendry, Sue Hewins, Nicola Hewitson, Kate Hillman, Mrityunjay Hiremath, Alexandra Howson, Zay Htet, Sharon Huish, Richard Hull, Alister Humphries, David P.J. Hunt, Karl Hunter, Samantha Hunter, Marilyn Ijeomah-Orji, Nick Inston, David Jayne, Gbemisola Jenfa, Alison Jenkins, Sally Johnson, Caroline A. Jones, Colin Jones, Amanda Jones, Rachel Jones, Lavanya Kamesh, Durga Kanigicherla, Fiona Karet Frankl, Mahzuz Karim, Amrit Kaur, David Kavanagh, Kelly Kearley, Larissa Kerecuk, Arif Khwaja, Garry King, Grant King, Ewa Kislowska, Edyta Klata, Maria Kokocinska, Mark Lambie, Laura Lawless, Thomas Ledson, Rachel Lennon, Adam P. Levine, Ling Wai Maggie Lai, Graham Lipkin, Graham Lovitt, Paul Lyons, Holly Mabillard, Katherine Mackintosh, Khalid Mahdi, Eamonn Maher, Kevin J. Marchbank, Patrick B. Mark, Sherry Masoud, Bridgett Masunda, Zainab Mavani, Jake Mayfair, Stephen McAdoo, Joanna Mckinnell, Nabil Melhem, Simon Meyrick, Shabbir Moochhala, Putnam Morgan, Ann Morgan, Fawad Muhammad, Shona Murray, Kristina Novobritskaya, Albert CM. Ong, Louise Oni, Kate Osmaston, Neal Padmanabhan, Sharon Parkes, Jean Patrick, James Pattison, Riny Paul, Rachel Percival, Stephen J. Perkins, Alexandre Persu, William G. Petchey, Matthew C. Pickering, Jennifer Pinney, David Pitcher, Lucy Plumb, Zoe Plummer, Joyce Popoola, Frank Post, Albert Power, Guy Pratt, Charles Pusey, Ria Rabara, May Rabuya, Tina Raju, Chadd Javier, Ian SD. Roberts, Candice Roufosse, Adam Rumjon, Alan Salama, Moin Saleem, R.N. Sandford, Kanwaljit S. Sandu, Nadia Sarween, John A. Sayer, Neil Sebire, Haresh Selvaskandan, Sapna Shah, Asheesh Sharma, Edward J. Sharples, Neil Sheerin, Harish Shetty, Rukshana Shroff, Roslyn Simms, Manish Sinha, Smeeta Sinha, Kerry Smith, Lara Smith, Shalabh Srivastava, Retha Steenkamp, Ian Stott, Katerina Stroud, Pauline Swift, Justyna Szklarzewicz, Fred Tam, Kay Tan, Robert Taylor, Marc Tischkowitz, Kay Thomas, Yincent Tse, Alison Turnbull, A. Neil Turner, Kay Tyerman, Miranda Usher, Gopalakrishnan Venkat-Raman, Alycon Walker, Stephen B. Walsh, Aoife Waters, Angela Watt, Phil Webster, Ashutosh Wechalekar, Gavin Iain Welsh, Nicol West, David Wheeler, Kate Wiles, Lisa Willcocks, Angharad Williams, Emma Williams, Karen Williams, Deborah H. Wilson, Patricia D. Wilson, Paul Winyard, Edwin Wong, Katie Wong, Grahame Wood, Emma Woodward, Len Woodward, Adrian Woolf, David Wright

“…We present the clinical demographics and renal function of 25,880 prevalent patients and sought evidence of bias in recruitment to RaDaR. …”
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HEPATORENAL SYNDROME WITH ACUTE RENAL FAILURE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE: MODERN ASPECTS OF CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTENSIVE CARE by R. R. Nagimullin, F. A. Shipulin, A. Zh. Bayalieva

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Primary renal aspergillosis in a newborn: a case report and review of the literature on children by Julio Maquera-Afaray, Medalit Luna-Vilchez, Diana Portillo-Alvarez, José W López

“…We report the case of a male newborn with Down syndrome and congenital heart disease, who underwent surgery for anorectal malformation and presented persistent fever and impaired kidney function secondary to kidney abscesses due to Aspergillus. …”
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Red yeast rice-induced severe rhabdomyolysis complicated by acute kidney injury and respiratory failure: a case report by Pengmin Zhou, Yucai Hong, Huabo Cai, Xiaoyu Zhou, Shunpeng He, Haotian Zhou, Jie Yang, Pengpeng Chen, Boming Xia, Xiong Lei, Suibi Yang, Zhongheng Zhang

“…At discharge, she had been weaned from mechanical ventilation and had partially recovered renal and muscle function. At follow-up, she was stable, ambulating, and performing daily functions without symptom recurrence. …”
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The Effect of Resistance Training and Spirulina Supplementation on the Expression of IGF-1, AKT, Rheb, and TSC2 Genes in Kidney of Male Rats by Zahra Kargar Dolatabadi, Abdossaleh zar, Sara Zare karizak, Rouhollah Ranjbar

“…One of these important pathways is the mTOR signaling pathway, which, as a key regulator in cellular growth and metabolism processes, plays an important role in muscle hypertrophy and kidney function. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of resistance training and Spirulina supplementation on the expression of IGF-1, AKT, Rheb, and TSC2 genes in male rats. …”
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A scanning electron microscopic studies on the podocytes of the kidneys of rat (rattus norvegicus) and blind mole rat (spalax leucodon) by İsmail Hakkı Nur, Atila Yoldaş, Aydın Alan, Aytaç Akçay

“…Contrary most rodents, they can carry out high levels of metabolic rate under these conditions. The present study aimed out to compare the blind mole rats and rats's renal podocyte, an important cell for maintaining the normal structure and function of the glomerulus.…”
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Two successful pregnancies after a simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation for type 1 diabetes mellitus-complicated nephropathy by Elisa Casella, Carla Ettore, Ferdinando Antonio Gulino, Elisa Pappalardo, Filippo Rapisarda, Stella Capriglione, Giuseppe Ettore

“…Pregnancy after transplantation is a high-risk condition; it should be carefully considered, planned, and monitored by a multidisciplinary health care team. Case presentation: We describe a case report of a 40 years old woman, how had two successful pregnancies after a simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation. …”
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Legionella pneumonia complicated with severe acute kidney injury requiring continuous renal replacement therapy: a case series by Sawandika Rupasinghe, Christopher Lemoh

“…The patient in case 2 developed acute kidney injury, rapid atrial fibrillation, type 2 non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, and liver function derangement. …”
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Short-long term near infrared spectroscopy patterns after different milk regimens olfactory stimuli in late preterms by Caterina Di Battista, Alice Grometto, Mariachiara Strozzi, Ebe D’Adamo, Giuseppe Lapergola, Antonio Maconi, Claudia Pelazzo, Marta Pasino, Vincenzo Salvo, Francesca Gazzolo, Martina Spinelli, Marta Betti, Marinella Bertolotti, Ali Saber Abdelhameed, Simonetta Picone, Diego Gazzolo

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Using Serum Interleukin-18 (IL-18) as a Biomarker of Chronic Kidney Failure and its relationship with Prolactin Level by Wasan Abdul Malik Izz al-Din, , Nadia Ibrahim Salih

“… Kidney failure usually occurs as a result of lacking the normal functions of kidney as either partly or completely. …”
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