330 leaves of rocket
330 leaves of rocket: When we were living in Bermuda one of the things I quickly learned was rocket was called “arugula“. If you are American this would seem entirely […]
To Lose or Not to Lose
To lose or not to lose? Sticking with the heavy issue of weight and PKD, I am pondering the requirement to trim my BMI, purely with respect to increasing my […]
Endomorphic advantage
It is World Kidney Day – 9th March, 2017. The leading article in the Clinical Kidney Journal today is on obesity and chronic kidney disease, subtitled “hidden consequences of the […]
My kidneys can’t concentrate!
My Kidneys can’t concentrate So its not just my brain that has problems concentrating as I get older – a recent study has confirmed that cystic kidneys in ADPKD have […]
Mitochondria could be a new target for ADPKD treatments
Yesterday afternoon my interest was caught by a study that was submitted for a “young investigator award” from the Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology. It is published in abstract form […]
No such thing as a perfect match
No such thing as a perfect match This post was prompted after reading a social media post stating that matching for kidney transplants was no longer necessary. That of course […]
The Primary Cilium
What is a primary cilium? Before we can answer this we need some definitions of biological terms: Epithelial cells : epithelia are sheets of cells that cover many of the […]
Ruth Tucker (1906-1955)
History is selective and it very much depends on who is telling it. In 2001 a group of prize-winning transplant doctors held a consensus meeting to define the most important […]
Norman Dott and Walter Dandy
Norman Dott was an Edinburgh-born neurosurgeon who, in 1931, treated an aneurysm on the proximal part of a middle cerebral artery in a patient by wrapping the lesion with crushed muscle. […]
I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want…
It isn’t common practice to ask for patient opinion on research priorities, but that is exactly what one group of researchers have done. I am still on the topic of […]
