The kidney: function, cells and biomarkers

“Experience Teaches” Claude Bernard The kidney plays a key role in homeostasis, maintains the internal environment and ensures physiological for approximately 100 trillion cells human body. nephron’s anatomic histological structure, with more than 20 types of specialized cells, reveals an architecture strategically focused on impeccable endothelium/epithelium functional interaction. Pathophysiological conditions can cause changes to this urine, evidenced by markers dysfunction molecules involved cell injury. Uremia was [...]