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Open AccessRole of hepcidin in oxidative stress and cell death of cultured mouse renal collecting duct cells: protection against iron and sensitization to cadmium
The liver hormone hepcidin regulates systemic iron homeostasis. Hepcidin is also expressed by the kidney, but exclusively in distal nephron segments. Several studies suggest hepcidin protects against kidney da...
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Renal handling of taurine,l-alanine,l-glutamate andd-glucose inOpsanus tau: studies on isolated brush border membrane vesicles
Renal brush border membrane vesicles (bbmv) from the aglomerular toadfish (Opsanus tau), isolated by differential precipitation, were tested for their ability to actively translocate (i) taurine, known to be secr...
