Following kidney injury, repair can result in functional tissue becoming a patch of cells and disorganized extracellular matrix—a scar—or it can recapitulate the original tissue architecture ...

How and why is an SGLT2 inhibitor protective of the kidneys? The working units of the kidney are individual nephrons; each nephron is formed by a glomerulus, which filters fluid from the blood ...

The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) assesses the function of all nephrons, and the single-nephron GFR assesses the function of individual nephrons. How the single-nephron GFR relates to ...