continue along the nephron tubule as urine. This eventually passes down to the bladder. In carrying out these processes, the kidney is able to fulfil its functions of regulating the water and ion ...

As tubule branching continues, they found that each additional branch caused a pulse of mechanical stress, which the team ...

This image shows a reconstitution of nephron structures by propagated nephron progenitors derived from human iPS cells. Yellow arrowheads: glomeruli, Black arrowheads: renal tubules. Scale bar: 20 ...