New way to explain the leading cause of kidney failure

Evidence reported in the October issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, offers a completely new explanation for why people with diabetes account for more than half of all patients requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation. It appears that insulin has a significant influence on the structure and proper function of a particular group of very specialised cells, known as podocytes, that are integral to the kidney's ability to do its job filtering blood...

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