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1The Unit of Electro-Optics Engineering and the Earth and Planetary Image Facility, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel 2The Department of Geography and Environmental Development and the Earth and Planetary Image Facility, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the E...

Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease of unknown etiology. The main morphological feature is interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy with absence of inflammatory infiltration. The pathogenesis of BEN is also obscure. Since tubular epithelial cells in the early phase of disease express vimentin as mesenchymal marker in addition to cytokeratin, we could specul...

Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial kidney disease of unknown etiology. Not only the etiology of the disease but even the initial lesion, target nephron structure and morphogenesis remain unresolved. We have previously performed quantitative morphometric analysis on kidney biopsy specimens of patients in different stages of BEN (without renal failure, with initial a...