Summary: The purpose of the C'IL-LICO RICM study is to develop innovative and transformative diagnostic and prognostic for patients suffering from ciliopathies leading to renal failure. The objectives is to decipher disease mechanisms and highlight signaling pathways altered in at-risk to develop renal failure patient groups and to produce a prognostic biomarker-based kit to predict the evolution of ciliop...

Summary: In 2005, The University of Alabama at Birmingham established a NIDDK-funded, interdisciplinary center of excellence in PKD-related research, with specific emphasis on recessive PKD. In the previous Core Center award period, we developed a Core Resource to capture clinical and mutational data for ARPKD patients (Core A: ARPKD Clinical and Genetic Resource, NCT00575705). However, studies in the last...

Summary: The aim of the study is to assess the improvement of health in patients affected by CKD when they are exposed to non-pharmacological treatment strategies as nutritional program (NP), physical activity program (PA) and mindfulness program (MP), when they are conveyed to the patient by means of digital technologies or not. In the present study, non-pharmacological interventions conveyed by a digital...