Owing to a shortage of kidneys for transplantation, the elderly and obese have begun to be accepted as kidney donors. After nephrectomy, the remaining kidney undergoes compensatory adaptation, and its

The process of inflammation is designed to be helpful to the body in repairing injury. It should be an acute (or very fast) response whereby the immune cells quickly remove

Collecting blood samples and other biological specimens is crucial to the understanding, prevention, and treatment of disease. However, from the patient’s perspective, it can also be painful, unnerving, frightening, and