The horseshoe kidney is useful as a graft and should be transplanted. The technical difficulties can be avoided by en bloc removal, perfusion in situ with Collins solution, and bench surgery during graft preparation.
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Urology
January 2025
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH. Electronic address:
Objectives: To develop a predictive tool to assist in predicting the risk of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) following robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN).
Methods: A retrospective review was performed on the prospectively maintained, IRB-approved database to identify all consecutive patients who underwent RAPN between 2008 and 2023. Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), horseshoe kidneys, solitary kidneys, and previous renal transplant recipients were excluded.
Cureus
December 2024
Urology, Hospital General Dr. Agustín O'Horán, Mérida, MEX.
A supernumerary kidney is a rare birth defect where an extra kidney is present. This extra kidney has its own separate outer covering, blood supply, and collection system. Normally, percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is the treatment of choice for large kidney stones, but its ideal use for supernumerary kidneys is unknown.
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January 2025
Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
C3 glomerulopathy (C3G), a rare kidney disease caused by dysregulation of alternative pathway complement activation, is characterized by glomerular C3 deposition, proteinuria, crescentic glomerulonephritis, and renal failure. The anti-C5 monoclonal antibody (mAb) drug eculizumab has shown therapeutic effects in some but not all patients with C3G, and no approved therapy is currently available. Here, we developed and used a triple transgenic mouse model of fast progressing lethal C3G (FHm/mP-/-hFDKI/KI) to compare the therapeutic efficacy of a bifunctional anti-C5 mAb fused to a functional factor H (FH) fragment (short consensus repeat 1-5 [SCR1-5]) and the anti-C5 mAb itself.
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January 2025
Center for Drug Design, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
p97 (also known as valosin-containing protein, VCP) is a member of the AAA+ ATPase family and is intimately associated with protein quality control and homeostasis regulation. Therefore, pharmaceutical inhibition of p97 has been actively pursued as an anticancer strategy. Recently, p97 has emerged as an important pro-viral host factor and p97 inhibitors are being evaluated as potential antiviral agents.
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January 2025
Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia 20375, United States.
Erythropoietin (EPO)-induced cellular signaling through the EPO receptor (EPOR) is a fundamental pathway for the modulation of cellular behavior and activity. In our previous work, we showed in primary human astrocytes that the multivalent display of EPO on the surface of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) mediates augmented JAK/STAT signaling, a concomitant 1.8-fold increase in the expression of aquaporin-4 (AQPN-4) channel proteins, and a 2-fold increase in the AQPN-4-mediated water transport activity.
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