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Factors secreted by intestinal bacteria may help prevent or treat kidney stones : news-medical





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Factors secreted by intestinal bacteria may help prevent or treat kidney stones

Factors secreted by intestinal bacteria may help prevent or treat kidney stones
Factors secreted by intestinal bacteria may help prevent or treat kidney stones
Researchers have discovered that factors secreted by gut bacteria might help prevent or treat kidney stones.The findings appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).Kidney stones can pose serious health problems for people and can increase their risks of developing chronic kidney disease and kidney failure.


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Factors secreted by gut bacteria may help combat kidney stones

Factors secreted by gut bacteria may help combat kidney stones
Factors secreted by gut bacteria may help combat kidney stones
Researchers have discovered that factors secreted by gut bacteria might help prevent or treat kidney stones, according to a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.Hatim Hassan, MD, PhD, from the University of Chicago, and his colleagues found that factors secreted by Oxalobacter formigenes, an anaerobic bacterium that lives in the large intestine and utilizes oxalate as its exclusive energy source, stimulate oxalate transport by human intestinal cells grown in tissue culture.The team also revealed that the mechanisms of the observed stimulation involve the PKA signaling pathway and a protein transporter called SLC26A6.


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Israeli-designed bacteria could help solve world's gigantic plastic problem

Israeli-designed bacteria could help solve world's gigantic plastic problem
Israeli-designed bacteria could help solve world's gigantic plastic problem
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