Changes in cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion markers are increasingly used to characterize disease onset progression. However, these relationships depend on both the biochemical molecular association between cells their extracellular matrix, as well biophysical mechanical properties orchestrated by cytoskeletal, membrane matrix components. To fully appreciate role of cell when determining n...

Abelha and colleagues evaluated the incidence and determinants of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) after major noncardiac surgery in patients with previously normal renal function. In this retrospective study of 1,166 patients with no previous renal insufficiency, who were admitted to a postsurgical intensive care unit (ICU) over a 2-year period, the incidence of AKI was 7.5%. Multivaria...

Medical physiology is one of the defining courses of the first year of medical school. One might argue that is the most "important" course in the first-year curriculum, for obvious reasons. It is also one of the most challenging. Finding a textbook is often difficult, as many professors prefer to use their own lecture notes, suggesting a textbook as an additional reference and giving little gui...

Chair of Physiology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. IQUIMEFA-CONICET Scholar at the University of Buenos Aires. Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Chair of Physiology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, UBA Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Chair of Physiology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, UBA Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Chair of...

THIS is the eleventh in a series of monographs dealing with various aspects of radiology. The book is of special interest since Dr. Davidson from Mount Zion Hospit-al, San Francisco, an authority on renal disease, wrote most of the text while on sabbatical leave in London, under the critical eye of his British contemporaries. The radiologic assessment of renal parenchymal disease is discussed o...