A new research paper titled "Inhibiting NLRP3 signaling in aging podocytes improves their life- and health-span" has been published in Aging. The decrease in the podocytes' lifespan and health span ...

Unlike other human stem cells, Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) can be produced directly from adult cells. Now, researchers have shown that human kidney podocytes produced from iPS cells via ...

Human stem cells are of great interest in the fields of regenerative medicine and medical research because they reproduce indefinitely and can differentiate into every other cell type found in the ...

Damage to podocytes - a specialized type of epithelial cell in the kidney - occurs in more than 90 percent of all chronic kidney disease. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine ...

In the early stages of kidney disease, a specialized type of kidney cell called the podocyte undergoes damaging changes in both its structure and function. Those changes are key indicators of the ...

Podocytes demonstrate a strong reliance on insulin to function properly, according to a study published in Cell Metabolism (2010;12:329-340). Mice hosting podocytes with no insulin receptors developed ...

A fasting-mimicking diet may promote renoprotection by reducing proteinuria and improving endothelial function. Cycles of controlled fasting may promote regeneration of podocytes in patients with ...

Our kidneys are charged with the extraordinary task of filtering about 53 gallons of fluid a day, a process that depends on podocytes, tiny, highly specialized cells in the cluster of blood vessels in ...

Newswise — In children with progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD), loss of kidney function is for the most part irreversible. “The glomerulus is where the kidney filters the blood,” says Laura ...