A Tokyo team has a kidney treatment that’s helping cats live longer. Most mammals carry a blood protein, AIM, that works like a cleanup crew: when kidney cells die and clog the tubules, AIM flags the debris so other cells clear it. A cat’s AIM isn’t built to do this, which is part of why cats are so prone to kidney disease: it affects roughly a third of cats over 10. https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00039.html
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