Increased protein intake and corresponding renal acid load under a concurrent alkalizing diet regime

Functional and Morphostructural Evaluation of the Kidneys of Wistar Rats after the Use of a Protein-Based Food Supplement

“…Granular and waxy casts represent successive stages in the degeneration of the cellular casts as they pass through the nephrons. Besides representing cellular remnants, the granules present in these casts can also represent aggregates of plasmatic proteins, i.e., granular casts can appear in any pathology that accompanies proteinuria [20]. In the present study, no histological alterations were observed in the kidneys of Group I animals ( Figure 1).…”