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New kidneys data have been reported by scientists at Campinas State University, Medical Department

Published in Gastroenterology Week, January 19th, 2009

"Body temperature is closely regulated via the integration of a number of mechanisms, the study of which has been greatly assisted by the exploitation of comparative physiology. Previous studies have demonstrated that chronic renal failure patients have significantly lower body temperatures than healthy subjects when artifacts from circadian changes were taken into consideration," researchers in Campinas, Brazil report.

"We hypothesize that the blunting of renal sensory neurons after kidney partial ablation may contribute to the lack of suppression of sympathetic efferent outflow towards BAT, modifying the glucose metabolism signaling pathway, UCP 1 expression and liver...

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