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Published online 24 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030623-3
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Bacteria could help failing kidneys
Microbes groomed to breakdown toxic waste between dialysis sessions.
A spoonful of microbes or a capsule of enzymes could soon lengthen the time between kidney patients' dialysis sessions, researchers told last week's annual meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, in Washington DC.
Diabetes and chronic high blood pressure can stress the kidneys and cause toxic substances like urea, creatinine and uric acid to accumulate in the blood and diffuse into the gut.
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