News & Views Published: 30 August 2016 Ageing Nephron loss in the ageing kidney — it's more than you think John F. Bertram & Wendy E. Hoy Nature Reviews Nephrology 12, 585–586 (2016) Cite this ...

Once nephron loss is so great that a normal GFR cannot be maintained (which is seen in patients with stage 3, 4, or 5 chronic kidney disease), the single-nephron GFR is increased persistently ...

Blood passes through the nephron inside the kidneys, there are many capillaries inside the kidney, and the blood is under high pressure at the start of the nephron, which aids the ultrafiltration ...

A new consortium to accelerate the discovery of novel drugs to treat kidney diseases was announced Monday 6 November. The NEPLEX (nephron on a chip with cellular and extracellular matrix complexity) ...