NDT Kidney Art Gallery

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Kidney in watercolors

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Maria Camila Bermudez, USA

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This artwork presents a stylized representation of glomeruli in an abstract, minimalistic form. Bright red strokes evoke the intricate vascular structures, swirling dynamically against a dark background.
The fluidity of the curves, contrasted with sharp lines, symbolizes the delicate balance of function and form in the microscopic kidney filters.

From:
Anil Kumar Saxena, Dubai

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The artwork represents an abstract depiction of an inflamed podocyte, which is a type of cell in the kidney involved in the filtration process. The vibrant red, yellow, and orange tones symbolizes inflammation.

From:
Anil Kumar Saxena, Dubai

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The vibrant chaos of life splinters in a flash—dreams splattered across a jagged landscape of shock and despair. The news of the end stage kidney disease and dialysis dependence pierces the soul like molten streaks, crimson and gold, swirling with the black void of uncertainty. The delicate balance shattered, leaving veins of hope entangled in dark realization.
Yet within the turbulence, the fight begins; the will to endure finds form among the chaos, weaving fragile, glistening strands of resilience.

From:
Anil Kumar Saxena, Dubai

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This vivid artwork symbolizes the relentless work of the glomeruli, filtering blood day and night. The swirling blues, pinks, and reds mirror the constant flow of life, with each curve and wave representing filtration, absorption, and secretion. The abstract forms convey the ceaseless activity within the kidneys, their colors reflecting oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, symbolizing balance and rhythm.
It is a tribute to the glomeruli’s tireless duty in sustaining life’s inner harmony.

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Anil Kumar Saxena, Dubai

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The fetus nestled within the Renal outline radiates an ethereal glow, symbolizing hope born from adversity. It is a testament to the miracle of creation, where, even in the shadow of illness, the promise of renewal prevails. The swirling hues reflect the turbulence and warmth of this journey—a vivid gesture of survival, defying limits with grace.  “Germination” embodies the profound triumph of life against the odds, where resilience blossoms within the most fragile vessel. (Inspired by the real-life experience when a young lady with ESRD due to lupus nephritis on dialysis delivered a healthy baby through C-section)

From:
Anil Kumar Saxena, Dubai

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The proposed cover art shows an abandoned moon landscrape with several craters representing kidney tubuli. Aliens are moving in their spaceships, representing myofibroblasts, in between the craters (in the interstitium) and fire around extracellular matrix. The cover art aims to explain basic principles of kidney fibrosis in an engaging way.

From:
Lars Koch & Gabriela Jiang, Germany

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Struvite crystals, bacteria and leucocytes (phase contrast, 400x)

From:
Nuno Moreira Fonseca & David Navarro, Portugal

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Monohydrate calcium oxalate crystals (phase contrast, 400x)

From:
Nuno Moreira Fonseca & David Navarro, Portugal

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Uric Acid Crystals (polarized light, 160x)

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Nuno Moreira Fonseca & David Navarro, Portugal

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Uric Acid Crystals (polarized light, 400x)

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Nuno Moreira Fonseca & David Navarro, Portugal

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Kidney sculpture made of granite, copper, olive wood and Judas tree wood

From:
Taner Çamsarı, Türkiye

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The title is “Celebration”.  Celebrating small victories in kidney care.

From:
Mayleen Laico, Philippines

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Artwork entitled, Gross Anatomy of Kidneys, was drawn in oil pastel to illustrate studying the anatomy of the kidneys.

From:
Swetha Sriramoju, USA

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Nephros – panta rhei

From:
Oliver Kretz, Hamburg, Germany

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A Beautiful Family of Glomeruli

From:
Anil Kumar Saxena, Dubai

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The image displays glomerular capillary lumens filled with large lymphomatous cells, indicative of intravascular large B-cell lymphoma. Masson’s trichrome stain at 200x magnification.

From:
Nisrine Bennani Guebessi, Morocco
Pathologist and Professor of pathology, department of pathology CHU IBN ROCHD, Casablanca

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The Golden Kidney Tree. Acrylic on canvas with gold foil.

From:
Ailene Buelva-Martin, Philippines

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The title of the painting is “Stained”.  It is inspired by the immunoflourescent staining of glomeruli done in the histopathologic evaluation of glomerular disease.

From:
Mayleen Laico, Philippines

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Human glomerulus (podocin in green, synaptopodin in magenta)

From:
Nicole Endlich, Germany

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This confocal image shows a cryosection of a larval zebrafish glomerulus at 5 days post fertilization. The endogenously expressed eGFP under control of the nphs2 promotor labels podocytes in green, including the major processes. Magenta depicts the glomerular endothelial cells with an antibody against Ehd3.

From:
Maximilian Schindler, Germany
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University Medicine Greifswald, Nicole Endlich’s Lab

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Aquarelle painting called ‘Care for your Kidneys’.

From:
Jeanine Verbeke, Belgium

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Combination of (i) immunofluorescence images stained for IgA and (b) renal magnetic resonance angiography images, in a patient with IgA and atherosclerotic renovascular disease (ARVD)

From:
Marieta Theodorakopoulou, Greece
1st Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki

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Glomerulus lover – Representative image showing immunofluorescent staining for nephrin (green), FAK (red) and DAPI (blue) on a piece of human nephrectomy.

From:
Margaux Van Wynsberghe, France
IMRB Inserm U955, Hôpital Henri Mondor

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“Inception”- like, kidney-shaped nephron with a cellular crescent, from a patient with pauci-immune ANCA-associated renal vasculitis

From:
Panagiotis Pateinakis, Greece
Nephrology Department, “Papagergiou” General Hospital

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Kidney histological section in which a glomerulus forming the most iconic symbol of love; a big heart has been discovered in a hematoxylin-eosin slide (negative colors) after a hard day working on microscope

From:
Maria Lambropoulou, Greece
Pathologist & Professor of Histology-Embryology
Medical Department, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis

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Kidney histological section in which the  “heart” represents collecting tubule (hematoxylin-eosin staining, 200×)

From:
Maria Lambropoulou, Greece
Pathologist & Professor of Histology-Embryology
Medical Department, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis

NDT Cover April 2024

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The Gift of Organ Donation

From:
Mayleen Laico, Philippines

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Transmission electron microscopy image of the murine renal filtration barrier. Random sections of the podocytes are sometimes reminiscent of prehistoric creatures.

From:
Oliver Kretz, Germany

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Adult human kidney organoids or tubuloids derived from CD24+ stem/progenitor cells. Red color in confocal image indicates E-cadherin (CDH1) staining, blue is DAPI.

From:
Yaoxian Xu and Rafael Kramann, Germany
Institute of Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology,  Medical Clinic 2, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University.

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The Figure shows lenti-paired CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing for genetic disease ADPKD modeling in CD24+ derived adult human kidney tubuloids. Red color in Confocal image indicates CD24 staining, blue is DAPI, two cuts in DNA represent lenti-paired CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in human PKD1 or PKD2 gene, white balloon-like structures represent ADPKD cysts.

From:
Yaoxian Xu and Rafael Kramann, Germany
Institute of Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology,  Medical Clinic 2, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University.

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Organized Complexity shows the kidney’s complex function yet it is a very organized system

From:
Mayleen Laico, Philippines

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A nephrologist, immersed in passion, dances hand-in-hand with proximal tubule cells and podocytes. The dance unfolds on a green kidney, representing the earth, set against a blue cosmos background, symbolizing the nephrologist’s devotion to kidney research.

From:
Xinyu Dong, USA
Nephrology Department, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Drug delivery system targeting kidney

From:
Sara Gjeci, Meike N. Leiske, Adrian T. Press
University of Jena and Bayreuth, Germany

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Glomerulus Galaxy – Immunofluorescence images stained for C3 in a patient with lupus nephritis

From:
Marieta Theodorakopoulou, Greece
1st Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,

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Immunofluorescence images of cultured urine stem cells (stained for CD133 (red) and CD24 (green), collected from healthy human urine.

From:
Chenyu Li, Germany

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Red blood cell cast indicating glomerulonephritis in a patient with AntiNeutrophil Cystoplasmic Antibody (ANCA) associated vasculitis

From:
Ralph Mohty, USA
MD MPH Stanford Nephrology

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Love hurts – Heart-shaped glomerulus in a nephritic kidney
Podoplanin – red; Alpha smooth muscle actin – yellow; DAPI – blue.

From:
Katharina Artinger, Austria

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Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

From:
Anil Kumar Saxena, United Arab Emirates
Chair, Nephrology Division  Mediclinic Welcare Hospital Al Gahroud

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2,8-Dihydroxyadenine crystals in a rat kidney. PAS stain under polarized light.

From:
Barbara Mara Klinkhammer, Germany

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Drug delivery system targeting kidney

From:
Sara Gjeci, Meike N. Leiske, Adrian T. Press
University of Jena and Bayreuth, Germany

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Calcium oxalate monohydrate crystals in a patient with acute kidney injury, many of the dumbbell-shaped type seen under phase contrast and polarized light (Original magnification x400).

From:
Monarch Shah,
Fellow, University of Virginia, USA

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Calcium oxalate monohydrate crystals in a patient with acute kidney injury, many of the dumbbell-shaped type seen under phase contrast and polarized light (Original magnification x400).

From:
Monarch Shah,
Fellow, University of Virginia, USA

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Time projection showing filtration on the surface of a rat kidney acquired using intravital 2-photon microscopy.
A bolus of a small blue dextran appears first in the lumen of the Bowman’s space, proximal tubule lumen, then finally in the cortical collecting duct lumen.
Projection is 300 frames, close to 4 minutes.

From:
Ruben M Sandoval, USA
Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy

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A chronic kidney disease rat model showing the distribution of albumin (red) acquired in 3D using intravital 2-photon microscopy.
Fluorescent cast material (green) can be seen obstructing the lumen of a distal tubule.  The original image was processed to generate a tessellation with seamless borders and natural symmetry.

From:
Ruben M Sandoval, USA
Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy

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Electron microscopy confirmed the electron-dense crystalline structures within cytoplasm of proximal tubular epithelial cells

From:
Hélène Fank, Belgium
MD

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Immunohistochemistry for kappa light chains was strongly positive within these crystals (b, white arrow)

From:
Hélène Fank, Belgium
MD

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Light microscopy (Hematoxylin x400) showing intracellular crystalline inclusions within proximal tubular epithelial cells (a, black arrow)

From:
Hélène Fank, Belgium
MD

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The Greening of Nephrology

From:
Mayleen Laico, Philippines

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Red blood cell cast – brightfield with Sternheimer – Malbin stain

From:
J. Romero Tafoya, México

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Bile cast and hyphae – brightfield with Sternheimer – Malbin stain

From:
J. Romero Tafoya, México

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Red blood cell cast- brightfield with Sternheimer- Malbin stain

From:
J. Romero Tafoya, México

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Glomerulus – The ‘Heart’ of the Kidney

From:
Anil Kumar Saxena, United Arab Emirates
MD, FRCP, FASN Chair,
Nephrology Division Medical Director

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Kidney Transplant
Watercolour painting

From:
Reynaldo Noriega Flores, México

NDT Cover October 2023

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This image depicts a postnatal mouse kidney immunostained for the renal arterial tree with alpha-Smooth Muscle Actin (SMA, magenta) and glomeruli with podocin (Nphs2, cyan). Kidney was imaged with a LaVision Ultramicroscope II LightSheet using an Olympus MVPLAPO 2x/0.5 objective, a 2x Zoom, Sheet NA of 0.23, a Z step of 2.0µm and image pixel size of 1.54µm/pixel.

From:
Pierre-Emmanuel N’Guetta, USA

Lori O’Brien, USA
PhD, Assistant Professor

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Uric acid crystals, under partial polarization – original magnification x400 – from patient with marked volume depletion and AKI

From:
Jay R. Seltzer, USA
MD, Chief of Nephrology

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Renal tubular epithelial cell cast – brightfield with prolonged Sternheimer-Malbin staining – original magnification x1000 – from patient with bacterial endocarditis, acute kidney injury, and infection related glomerulonephritis

From:
Jay R. Seltzer, USA
MD, Chief of Nephrology

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Uric acid crystals in urine, under fully polarized light – original magnification x400 – from patient with marked volume depletion and AKI

From:
Jay R. Seltzer, USA
MD, Chief of Nephrology

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Red blood cell cast – brightfield with Sternheimer-Malbin stain – original magnification x1000 – from patient with hydralazine-induced vasculitis

From:
Jay R. Seltzer, USA
MD, Chief of Nephrology

NDT Cover July 2023

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This image demonstrates an abstract view of the transition between a proximal tubule and the thick descending limb of the loop of Henle

From:
Tiffany Caza, USA
MD/PhD, a nephropathologist at Arkana Laboratories

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B: Bright field, dark field and phase contrast image of cluster of calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals surrounding leukocytes

From:
Swetha Kanduri, USA
MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Pen and ink sketch

From:
Maia Celeste Arbatin, Philippines
MD FPCP FPSN (#nephgirlsketches)

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Hydrangea Kidney

From:
Maia Celeste Arbatin, Philippines
MD FPCP FPSN (#nephgirlsketches)

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Kidney Trees

From:
Jeanine Verbeke, Belgium

NDT Cover August 2023

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Drawing for a family gift

From:
Dominique Couck, Belgium

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Eyelash sign in glomerular amyloidosis

From:
Boonyarit Cheunsuchon, Thailand
MD, Associate professor

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NDT history

From:
Sonja Djudjaj, Germany
PhD, Assistant Professor

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Water color kidney

From:
Sonja Djudjaj, Germany
PhD, Assistant Professor

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Giving hope

From:
Mayleen Laico, Philippines
MD

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Representative image obtained by STED super-resolution microscopy, showing strong positivity for IgA deposits  (orange) and a partial mild effacement of foot processes (stained with nephrin, cyan) in a biopsy of  IgA nephropathy patient. The biopsy specimen underwent optical tissue clearing before staining.

From:
Maria Lucia Angelotti, Italy
PhD

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Colorized transmission electron microscopy image of murine renal kidney cortex. Individual tubular segments are colored in green, blue and yellow, while a glomerular section is colored in red.

From:
Miriam Buhl, Germany
PhD

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Phase contrast image of cluster of calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals surrounding leukocytes

From:
Swetha Kanduri, USA
MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Bright field image of cluster of calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals surrounding leukocytes

From:
Swetha Kanduri, USA
MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Dark field image of cluster of calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals surrounding leukocytes

From:
Swetha Kanduri, USA
MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Red blood cell cast – brightfield with Sternheimer-Malbin stain – original magnification x1000 – from patient with anti-glomerular basement membrane disease

From:
Jay R. Seltzer, USA
MD, Chief of Nephrology

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Secondary Toni-Debré-FANCONI syndrome – intracellular crystalline inclusions within proximal tubular epithelial cells

From:
Hélène Fank, Belgium
MD

Co-authors:
Antoine Bouquegneau, Christophe Bovy and Orphal Colleye

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Fibrinoid necrosis in a patient with ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis

From:
Boonyarit Cheunsuchon, Thailand
MD, Associate professor