Featured Publications
About Our Research
We’ve doubled down on our commitment to research and teaching.
Arkana is a learning, teaching, and innovating practice with one unifying passion – to actively work toward the day that our research yields breakthroughs that make our services unnecessary. Eradicating rare and common diseases is the end game of all of our efforts because patient health is foremost in our minds every day. Read about some of our latest publications below.
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Framework for Apolipoprotein 1-Mediated Kidney Disease Classification
Our team at Arkana recently published updated guidance on how to report APOL1 genetic test results for kidney disease risk.…
Read Publication• March 2026
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Serine Protease HTRA1 is a Common Autoantigen in Membranous Nephropathy in Patients of 80 Years and Older
This study found that HTRA1 is a common cause of membranous nephropathy in patients over 80 years old. Membranous nephropathy…
Read on PubMed• March 2026
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Assessment of the Banff Working Group Classification of Definitive BK Polyomavirus Nephropathy
Polyomavirus associated nephropathy (PyVAN) continues to be a burden in renal transplantation leading to allograft insufficiency or graft failure. A…
Read on PubMed• March 2026
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Expression of Macrophage Markers in Cryoglobulinemic Glomerulonephritis – A Possible Role of CXCL9
Cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis (CGGN) is a type of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) that develops in patients with systemic cryoglobulinemia. To date the…
Read on PubMed• March 2026
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Patterns of Glomerular Injury in Kidneys Infiltrated by Lymphoplasmacytic Neoplasms
Glomerular injury may occur as a result of immune dysfunction in patients with remote lymphoplasmacytic neoplasms. Glomerular injury concurrent with…
Read on PubMed• March 2026
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Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Transgenic Mice Develop Cryoglobulinemia and Hepatitis with Similarities to Human Hepatitis C Liver Disease
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia in humans is strongly associated with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. It remains controversial whether liver injury…
Read on PubMed• March 2026
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Membranous Glomerulopathy with Spherules: An Uncommon Variant with Obscure Pathogenesis
Occasional case reports of membranous glomerulopathy described unique subepithelial accumulations of an unusual type of immune deposit composed of spherular…
Read on PubMed• March 2026
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IgA Nephropathy with Crescents in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Crescentic glomerulonephritis is an uncommon finding in renal allografts. Recurrence or de novo mesangial deposition of immunoglobulin A (IgA) in…
Read on PubMed• March 2026
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Crystals in Podocytes: An Unusual Manifestation of Systemic Disease
Crystal-storage disorders involving the kidney are characterized by abnormal accumulations of crystalline material within various cell types. Some of these…
Read on AJKD• March 2026
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Retrograde venous invasion in renal cell carcinoma: a complication of sinus vein and main renal vein invasion
Renal cell carcinoma, especially clear cell, gains access to the venous system as the initial route of extrarenal spread. Intravenous…
Read on PubMed• March 2026