Thanks to remarkable advances in neonatal intensive care, infants who once had little
chance for survival can now enter adulthood. Yet the consequences of premature birth or …

Environmental conditions during perinatal development such as maternal undernutrition,
maternal glucocorticoids, placental insufficiency, and maternal sodium overload can …

The risk stratification of young adults between subjects who will develop a mild form COVID-
19 and subjects who will undergo a severe disease remains inaccurate. In this review, we …

Preterm birth is associated with adverse renal health outcomes including hypertension,
chronic kidney disease, and an increased rate of progression to end-stage renal failure. This …

In the present article, we discuss the following topics:(1) the fetal programming of adult
kidney diseases and (2) the role of neonatologists in the regenerative renal medicine, based …

This review summarizes the results of a series of studies performed by our group with the
aim to define the expression levels of thymosin β4 and thymosin β10 over time, starting from …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a global public health issue with different features
to take into account in different parts of the world. 1 The prevalence of end-stage renal …

With the incidence of end-stage renal disease increasing dramatically during the last ten
years, its prevalence rising about 8% per year, chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents …

The development of the mammalian kidney is a complex and in part unknown process which
requires interactions between pluripotential/stem cells, undifferentiated mesenchymal cells …

The preterm kidney cannot be simply considered as a kidney small in size: as compared to
the adult kidney, the develo** organ of the preterm infant is characterized by marked …