Urea transporter (UT) proteins facilitate the passive transport of urea driven by a concentration gradient across the cell plasma membrane in some kidney and extrarenal cells The kidney expresses ...
Eleven of 13 patients with far advanced chronic renal disease of diverse etiologies were found to have urine that remained hypotonic to plasma in spite of the administration of a supramaximal dose of ...
Niigata, Japan - The gold standard test for predicting the onset of diabetic kidney disease is albuminuria. However, detecting albuminuria alone has limited sensitivity and specificity in end-stage ...