The kidney is a paired excretory and regulatory organ that filters blood through approximately a million nephrons, removing metabolic waste and surplus solutes while finely controlling fluid volume, electrolyte concentrations, and acid-base balance. Beyond excretion, it performs endocrine roles, secreting renin to r…
The kidney is a paired excretory and regulatory organ that filters blood through approximately a million nephrons, removing metabolic waste and surplus solutes while finely controlling fluid volume, electrolyte concentrations, and acid-base balance. Beyond excretion, it performs endocrine roles, secreting renin to regulate blood pressure, erythropoietin to stimulate red blood cell production, and activating vitamin D for calcium and bone homeostasis. Renal health is gauged by glomerular filtration rate and by markers of glomerular and tubular damage, and the kidney is susceptible to ischaemic, toxic, immune, obstructive, and structural injury that can culminate in chronic disease and failure requiring dialysis or transplantation. Research relevant to this area examines reductions in estimated glomerular filtration rate in the setting of elevated blood urea nitrogen, polycystic kidney disease, and baroreflex and remodelling changes in experimental renovascular hypertension. Further work addresses thyroid abnormalities in chronic and end-stage kidney disease, living kidney transplantation and its haemodynamic and ethical dimensions, post-transplant evaluation by Doppler ultrasonography, contrast-agent nephrotoxicity, and renoprotective interventions. The field draws together nephrology, transplantation, physiology, and toxicology. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on the kidney, including renal function and filtration, transplantation, nephrotoxicity, and chronic kidney disease and its systemic associations.
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