Cystinuria occurs in one out of every 7,000 in the world, one out of every 10,000 -20,000 in Japan, but its curative treatment has not been established. AGT1/SLC7A13, a protein, is an unknown factor ...

Among men, serum phosphate levels declined with age almost linearly (Figure 1, top graph). Serum phosphate levels in women under the age of 45 years overlapped with those in men and then increased ...

Under normal conditions, most of the sodium chloride filtered by the kidney (often more than 99 percent) is reabsorbed, and one can think of the tubular functions that permit this reabsorption as ...

While not traditionally discussed, the kidneys’ contributions to maintaining glucose homeostasis are significant and include such functions as release of glucose into the circulation via ...