Introduction There are limited data on the association of kidney dysfunction with prognosis in
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the extent to which acute kidney injury (AKI) …

Bioprinting techniques have been flourishing in the field of biofabrication with pronounced
and exponential developments in the past years. Novel biomaterial inks used for the …

Background The relative immunosuppression and high prevalence of comorbidities in
patients with ESKD on dialysis raise concerns that they may have an elevated risk of severe …

Tissue-resident immune cells are important for organ homeostasis and defense. The
epithelium may contribute to these functions directly or by cross-talk with immune cells. We …

Fibrosis denotes excessive scarring, which exceeds the normal wound healing response to
injury in many tissues. Although the extracellular matrix deposition appears unstructured …

Abstract The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and
Infectious Diseases Society of America jointly sponsored the development of this guideline …

Despite recent advances in the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD), morbidity
and mortality rates in these patients remain high. While pressure-mediated injury is a well …

Renal fibrosis is the final pathological process common to any ongoing, chronic kidney
injury or maladaptive repair. It is considered as the underlying pathological process of …

Cisplatin is a widely used chemotherapeutic agent used to treat solid tumours, such as
ovarian, head and neck, and testicular germ cell. A known complication of cisplatin …

Although the complement system is primarily perceived as a host defence system, a more
versatile, yet potentially more harmful side of this innate immune pathway as an …