https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.
Robert A. Fenton & team show that a diet low in potassium causes bone loss in mice, effects that are attributable to altered calcium absorption by the kidney.
The figure shows deep learning instance segmentation model to identify kidney tubules and indicates low dietary K+ intake alters the abundance of the calcium-sensing receptor.
1Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
2Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
3Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.