Like Charon regulating the passage of deceased souls across the River Styx in Greek
mythology, it is hypothesized here that kidney tissue macrophages and multinucleated giant …

Travertine deposits preserved within ancient aqueduct channels record information about
the hydrology, temperature, and chemistry of the flowing water from which they precipitated …

A significant proportion of the world's population is afflicted by kidney stone disease,
urolithiasis, often as a chronic, recurring condition. The process of biomineralization leading …

The prevalence of urolithiasis has been steadily rising with an increasingly earlier onset of
the disorder (1). Current knowledge about the pathogenesis of urolithiasis is scarce, and …

A calculus is a solid mineral concretion such as a kidney stone, bladder stone, gall stone or
stomach stone that forms naturally in a body under certain dietary or environmental …

Calcium oxalate is the main constituent of kidney stones, and it exists either in monohydrate
or dihydrate form. Herein calcium oxalate dihydrate was investigated by Fourier transform …

The chemical analysis of an urolith is often interpreted as “stone's composition”. However, it
must be taken into consideration, that in most cases, only a fragment of the stone has been …

Sivaguru et al. evaluated the evolution of calcium oxalate stones using geobiology [1]. They
observed how calcium oxalate stones undergo multiple events of dissolution during …

Calcium oxalate kidney stones, the most prevalent type of kidney stones, undergo a multi-
step process of crystal nucleation, growth, aggregation, and secondary transition. The …

Calcium oxalate kidney stones, the most prevalent type of kidney stones, undergo a multi-
step process of crystal nucleation, growth, aggregation, and secondary transition. The …