Older cats with CKD struggle to filter toxins from their bloodstream effectively. In this study, the researchers analyzed kidney samples from two cat cohorts aged 6 to 21 years. The cohort number ...

All the evidence suggests that p-cresol sulfate is the most toxic of the hundreds of uremic toxins in the body, Kiang says. "That's why we targeted this particular toxin." "High levels of this ...

Methods: The CKD rat model was induced using 2.5% adenine, and the effect of SSKE was evaluated by detecting uremic toxins, inflammatory cytokines, and renal function. The structure of the intestine ...

Glutamine is extracted from renal tubular cells and used to produce ammonia (NH3). High levels of urea cause the kidneys to produce uremic toxins. Lipid nephrotoxicity could damage the structure and ...

A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

Treatments for uremic bleeding target the various factors that seem to have a role in platelet dysfunction. Interventions can exert acute (within 6 h) or delayed (within several weeks) effects ...

His group also explores energy related and other applications of materials discovered and developed in Gogotsi Lab. His work on carbon and carbide nanomaterials with tunable structure and porosity had ...

Eleven people have been sickened in a severe Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) outbreak in France linked to raw milk cheese. Nine hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) cases in adults have been ...