Angiotensinogen is Necessary for Postnatal Kidney Development • 1821

“Rhetoric Teaching” is necessary for all of the university students?

A simple search for information sources shows that there are many researches and articles in the field of lecture method and comparison with other types of teaching methods. Interestingly enough, if not with certainty in all of these researches, at least in most of them, the result was in favor of non-lecturing. Previously, the authors emphasized the importance of rhetoric in a Persian letter (...

Wnt5a is necessary for normal kidney development in zebrafish and mice.

BACKGROUND Wnt5a is important for the development of various organs and postnatal cellular function. Little is known, however, about the role of Wnt5a in kidney development, although WNT5A mutations were identified in patients with Robinow syndrome, a genetic disease which includes developmental defects in kidneys. Our goal in this study was to determine the role of Wnt5a in kidney development....

Postnatal development of urea concentration in the newborn rabbit's kidney.

Postnatal development of carbonic anhydrase IV expression in rabbit kidney.

Carbonic anhydrase (CA) IV activity facilitates renal acidification by catalyzing the dehydration of luminal carbonic acid. CA IV has been localized to the proximal tubules and medullary collecting ducts. Maturation of CA IV expression has been considered to be important in the development of renal acid excretion. The purpose of the present study was to determine the maturational expression of ...

Suppressing kidney angiotensinogen in blood pressure regulation

The classical renin–angiotensin system (RAS) is activated by renin that is secreted from the juxtaglomerular cells of the afferent arteriole, which cleaves angiotensinogen (Agt), synthesized and released by the liver. This leads to the generation of a potent biologically active peptide, angiotensin II (AngII), which contributes to blood pressure regulation and sodium homeostasis. Recent studies...