Understanding Kidney Cell Suicide In Diabetes Patients
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
Diabetes is the leading cause of renal failure that requires dialysis. The disease generates such a hostile environment that it forces the kidney cells to kill themselves, progressively reducing the renal functions of the kidneys. A research group has studied the causes and consequences of the cell suicide of renal cells. Diabetes slowly destroys the kidney up to the point where the renal function has to be taken on by dialysis (artificial kidney) or a transplanted kidney.
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