New study reveals promising results
Polycystic kidney disease
FRIDAY, April 11 (HealthDay News) — The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine made a new research that indicated to slow down the growth of Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) by inhibitors compounds known as CFTR.
Inherited kidney disease
PKD is considered a common inherited kidney disease and patients with that disease have small bubble sort of cysts on the Kidneys that gradually increase not only in mass but also in numbers. The Kidneys get large in size and it, ultimately, turns into kidney failure. There is still no treatment for PKD.
Chloride secretion
It’s believed the accumulation of fluid in the cysts is related to chloride secretion, which is affect by the CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) gene, according to some information in a news release about the research.
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