Building the Glomerulus: A Matricentric View

Building the glomerulus: a matricentric view.

T he structural integrity of the glomerular capillaries stems from the stereotyped arrangement of the three constituent cell types: Podocytes (also called visceral epithelial cells), endothelial cells, and mesangial cells. The arrangement of these cells depends in part on their interactions with extracellular matrix, most notably the glomerular basement membrane (GBM). In this essay, I discuss ...

Building Verb Predicates: A Computational View

A short history of ‘glomerulus’

After enjoying Kettritz’s and Luft’s Nephroquiz [1], I enjoyed even more their reply [2] to my comment, which they ended by posing an interesting dilemma: should we use the terms ‘glomerulus/glomeruli’, masculine gender, or ‘glomerulum/glomerula’, neutral gender? Though I am not a learned scholar (only relying on my four-year high school Latin, long forgotten), I have done some homework and del...

Dissecting the Role of Vegf-a in the Glomerulus – Insights into the Adult Glomerulus and Renal Disease

Building the European Robotics Platform EUROP The High Level View

Robotics is a technology at the cusp. Long accepted by industry to improve factory quality, performance and efficiency, robotics has for at least three decades been a key technology in engineering industries (automotive, electronics, etc.) for increasing industrial productivity and for competitive manufacturing. After decades of hype and disappointment, robots are at last moving out of the shop...