Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 7 (Apr. 1, 2003), pp. 4108-4113 (6 pages) Current interpretations of kidney function in terms of a coarse ...

Almost all mammalian cell types have morphologies that are uniquely tailored to their physiological functions. This immense variation in cell shape depends on an underlying network of dynamic and ...

Instead of running tests on live kidneys, researchers have developed a model kidney for working out the kinks in medicines and treatments. The reusable, multi-layered and microfluidic device ...

This cell cluster may look jumbled, but it is well organized. Called a glomerulus, it’s a cluster of cells from a kidney; it filters and processes blood to maintain proper levels of water, salt, and ...

Shown is an image of an olfactory glomerulus, the functional unit of odor processing within the olfactory bulb of the brain. The blue fibers represent the sensory projections from the nose to an ...

Glomerulosclerosis refers to the scarring of the glomeruli in the kidneys following any type of insult. The glomeruli are the tiny loops of capillaries that rest on the special basement membrane which ...