Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease of unknown etiology. The main morphological feature is interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy with absence of inflammatory infiltration. The pathogenesis of BEN is also obscure. Since tubular epithelial cells in the early phase of disease express vimentin as mesenchymal marker in addition to cytokeratin, we could specul...

1Department of Psychology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 2Department of Cognitive Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3Department of Computer Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 4Department of Learning Disabilities and Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learn...

Pôle d’Anesthésie Réanimation et Urgences, Hôpital Militaire Moulay Ismaïl-Meknès, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Fès, Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc, Service Oto-Rhino Laryngologie, Hôpital Militaire Moulay Ismaïl-Meknès, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Fès, Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc, Service de Chirurgie Maxillo Faciale, Hôpital Militair...

Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial kidney disease of unknown etiology. Not only the etiology of the disease but even the initial lesion, target nephron structure and morphogenesis remain unresolved. We have previously performed quantitative morphometric analysis on kidney biopsy specimens of patients in different stages of BEN (without renal failure, with initial a...

Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Desert Animal Adaptations and Husbandry, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Department of Ecology and Environment Conservation, Omsk State Pedagogical Univ...