by Joel Streed, Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainMarch is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders—kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Your kidneys are situated in the back of your abdomen under your lower ribs, one on each side of...
Researchers say sugar can affect cysts that may be a factor in a common type of kidney disease. Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg via Getty Images New research conducted in a laboratory setting may potentially have significant effects on the management of polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a condition impacting more than 500,000 individuals in the United States. Organoids...
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER IMAGE: THIS IMAGE SHOWS A SEVERELY CYSTIC KIDNEY FROM A ADPKD MOUSE MODEL (LEFT). DELETING THE PKD1 MIR-17 BINDING SITE MARKEDLY REDUCES CYST GROWTH (RIGHT). YELLOW INDICATES KIDNEY COLLECTING DUCTS AND BLUE INDICATES NUCLEI. CREDIT: UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER Blocking the inhibition of PKD1 and PKD2 gene expression by deleting a binding site for microRNAs...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A chemical modification of RNA that can be influenced by diet appears to play a key role in polycystic kidney disease, an inherited disorder that is the fourth leading cause of kidney failure in the U.S., UT Southwestern researchers report in a new study. The findings, published...
