Nephrology

Renal disease, dialysis, transplantation and electrolyte disorders.

ELF4 drives NK cell licensing in kidney fibrosis, JCI study finds

JCI study links ELF4 to NK cell maturation and kidney fibrosis, showing loss of ELF4 reduced inflammation, fibrosis, and renal injury in models.

JNCI retracted a dapagliflozin paper on kidney function and albuminuria in children with chronic kidney disease, leaving the…

A Taiwanese cohort found higher METS-IR scores were linked to greater cardiovascular mortality in peritoneal dialysis, though discrimination…

Adults with kidney disease showed lower neutralizing titers against three SARS-CoV-2 strains after China’s Omicron wave, with stronger…

Frontiers review defines a gut-to-glomerulus axis in IgA vasculitis nephritis and warns that most targeted therapy data still…

Long-read single-nucleus RNA sequencing revealed isoform shifts in mouse acute kidney injury, with new changes in proximal tubule…

An acute kidney injury prediction model weakened in external validation, and local recalibration improved calibration only modestly across…

A transformer model for EHR data predicted kidney decline in diabetic kidney disease, but trees performed better for…

A Kidney International review proposes that SGLT2 inhibitors slow CKD by reducing proximal tubule metabolic burden, hypoxia, and…

Nearly half of lupus nephritis patients had extrarenal involvement at diagnosis, but renal response, remission, and flare risk…

Nephrology

Renal disease, dialysis, transplantation and electrolyte disorders.

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