After several decades during which little attention was paid to vasopressin and/or urine concentration in clinical practice, interest in vasopressin has renewed with the availability of new, potent, ...

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

Your body creates ammonia when it breaks down protein from foods. Ammonia contains nitrogen, which mixes with other elements in your body, including carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, to form urea. Urea is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A team from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) has discovered a novel link between ...

The early morning fasting urine-to-plasma urea ratio reflects the kidneys’ urine-concentrating capacity, which may decline early in ADPKD, according to investigators. The urine-to-plasma urea ratio ...

Doctors order a blood urea nitrogen (BUN) test to measure the amount of urea nitrogen in your blood. It helps them see how well your kidneys are working. A BUN test measures how much blood urea ...

A type of two-dimensional layered material has emerged as a candidate to assist in replacing the body's waste filtration system in wearable kidneys. For more than 3 million people around the world, ...