Sentences with phrase «kidney cyst growth»

Sure enough, the kidney cyst growth was inhibited.
In 2013, Dr. Patel and fellow researchers reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that this microRNA cluster indeed appeared to promote kidney cyst growth.
«The HALT - PKD findings show that people with polycystic kidney disease do not need to take both of the drugs studied to slow their rate of kidney cyst growth and decline in kidney function.»

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As patients» kidney volume increases due to cyst growth, they gradually lose their kidney function and often develop kidney failure.
After running the simulations at IU Bloomington, Bacallao confirmed the cyst growth predictions seen in the virtual cysts in experiments using real human cells cultivated from polycystic kidneys from patients at the IU School of Medicine.
The HALT - PKD trial enrolled volunteers to test whether a combination of commonly used FDA - approved drugs, lisinopril and telmisartan, could shrink kidney cysts and therefore slow progression of ADPKD, a genetic disorder characterized by growth of fluid - filled cysts in the kidneys.
The test drug slowed the growth of kidney cysts in two mouse models and in cell cultures of human kidney cysts, the study showed.
«This is the first treatment that targets a mechanism that directly contributes to the development and growth of the kidney cysts in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease,» says Vicente Torres, M.D., Ph.D., director of Mayo Clinic's Translational Polycystic Kidney Disease Ckidney cysts in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease,» says Vicente Torres, M.D., Ph.D., director of Mayo Clinic's Translational Polycystic Kidney Disease Ckidney disease,» says Vicente Torres, M.D., Ph.D., director of Mayo Clinic's Translational Polycystic Kidney Disease CKidney Disease Center.
Persians and Himalayans often develop severe cases of cyst growth inside the kidneys and eventually lead to kidney failure.
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