Browsing Faculty Contributions by Subject "kidney"

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    • Kidney-on-a-chip: untapped opportunities 

      Ashammakhi N.; Wesseling-Perry K.; Hasan A.; Elkhammas E.; Zhang Y.S. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article Review)
      The organs-on-a-chip technology has shown strong promise in mimicking the complexity of native tissues in vitro and ex vivo, and recently significant advances have been made in applying this technology to studies of the ...

    • Obesity-induced changes in kidney mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum in the presence or absence of leptin 

      Munusamy, Shankar; do Carmo, Jussara M.; Hosler, Jonathan P.; Hall, John E. ( American Physiological Society , 2015 , Article)
      We investigated obesity-induced changes in kidney lipid accumulation, mitochondrial function, and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the absence of hypertension, and the potential role of leptin in modulating these ...

    • The Role of Systemic Filtrating Organs in Aging and Their Potential in Rejuvenation Strategies 

      Kassab, Amal; Rizk, Nasser; Prakash, Satya ( MDPI , 2022 , Article Review)
      Advances in aging studies brought about by heterochronic parabiosis suggest that aging might be a reversable process that is affected by changes in the systemic milieu of organs and cells. Given the broadness of such a ...