With the increasing focus on personalized medicine there is a need for specific tools that can be used to predict, diagnose, and monitor disease progression and treatments. The clinical significance of one such disease marker, RANTES, a chemoattractant cytokine in inflammation, has been suggested in kidney related complications, autoimmune diseases,...

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is one of two hormones in the body primarily responsible for calcium regulation. PTH affects bone and kidney tissue. The inappropriate regulation of this hormone is associated with diseases such as primary and secondary hyperpara-thyroidism, hypoparathyroidism, hypo/hypercalcemia, and adynamic bone disease. PTH exists...

Diabetes is estimated to affect 24 million Americans to date. The disease has increased in prevalence by approximately 50% over the last decade and is expected to double in the next 40 years. Not only is diabetes the sixth leading cause of death among Americans, complications related to the disease include the leading cause of kidney failure, 60%...