Xiao-Tong's current work focuses on the regulation of the sodium chloride cotransporter in the distal nephron, kidney remodeling and optical tissue clearing. Oregon Health & Science University is ...

Within the kidney, SIRT1 is extensively expressed in podocytes and tubular cells. Its substantial expression in aquaporin 2-positive cells within the rat distal nephron suggests a potential role ...

Five of the patients on amphotericin B had defects in acid excretion characteristic of distal RTA ... rather than a diffusely ischemic nephron. These include renal wasting of sodium and potassium ...

1 MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK 2 The Graham Watts Laboratories for Research into Motor Neuron Disease, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and ...

The biceps tendon is also important in its contribution to shoulder stability. There are two proximal biceps tendon attachments at the shoulder joint, and a single distal biceps tendon at the elbow.

Several organs are involved in calcium metabolism: kidneys, bone, intestine and parathyroid gland. Calcium level is regulated by parathyroid hormone (PTH), which increases calcium resorption from the ...

Therefore, almost all cardiac patients undergoing imaging procedures will be on HMG-CoA reductase inhibiting drugs. Remote ischemic precondition (RIPC) is a phenomenon in which episodes of transient ...

aCenter for Renal Translational Medicine/Institute for Metabolomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States bDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of ...

These guidelines aim to help clinicians manage patients who have had an intestinal resection that leaves a short length (about 2 m or less) of small bowel remaining. The preliminary guidelines were ...