It was like beingwoken up. I was so toxic. I felt toxic." The kidney's primary function is to filter the bloodstream. As blood flowsthrough the kidneys, waste is extracted from it and excreted as ...

The kidney is a major site of organ damage caused by drug toxicity. This frequently manifests during drug development and/or in standard clinical care. Nephrotoxicity resulting from drug exposure ...

However, when the kidneys are no longer working—referred to as kidney failure—urea can accumulate to toxic levels. Uremia is most often due to kidney failure from advanced chronic kidney ...

KIBRA’s name comes from its location in the kidney and in the brain ... despite not fixing the problem of toxic tau protein accumulation,” said Kristeen Pareja-Navarro, co-first author of the study.