Uromodulin in the Bloodstream: Old Wine in a New Wineskin

摘要

“What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine designed to turn, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?,” wrote Karen Blixen (1885–1962) under her pen name, Isak Dinesen, in Seven Gothic Tails .[1][1] Urine, of course, is much more.