Tubulointerstitial injury and the progression of chronic kidney disease

In chronic kidney disease (CKD), once injury from any number of disease processes reaches a threshold, there follows an apparently irreversible course toward decline in kidney function. The tubulointerstitium may play a key role in this common progression pathway. Direct injury, high metabolic deman...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hodgkins, Kavita S., Schnaper, H. William
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337413/