[HTML][HTML] Single-cell analysis highlights differences in druggable pathways underlying adaptive or fibrotic kidney regeneration

MS Balzer, T Doke, YW Yang, DL Aldridge… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The kidney has tremendous capacity to repair after acute injury, however, pathways guiding
adaptive and fibrotic repair are poorly understood. We developed a model of adaptive and …

Cell profiling of mouse acute kidney injury reveals conserved cellular responses to injury

Y Kirita, H Wu, K Uchimura… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
After acute kidney injury (AKI), patients either recover or alternatively develop fibrosis and
chronic kidney disease. Interactions between injured epithelia, stroma, and inflammatory …

[HTML][HTML] Kidney fibrosis: from mechanisms to therapeutic medicines

R Huang, P Fu, L Ma - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is estimated to affect 10–14% of global population. Kidney
fibrosis, characterized by excessive extracellular matrix deposition leading to scarring, is a …

Mapping the human kidney using single-cell genomics

F Schreibing, R Kramann - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2022 - nature.com
The field of single-cell genomics and spatial technologies is rapidly evolving and has
already provided unprecedented insights into complex tissues. Major advances have been …

Ferroptotic stress promotes the accumulation of pro-inflammatory proximal tubular cells in maladaptive renal repair

S Ide, Y Kobayashi, K Ide, SA Strausser, K Abe… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Overwhelming lipid peroxidation induces ferroptotic stress and ferroptosis, a nonapoptotic
form of regulated cell death that has been implicated in maladaptive renal repair in mice and …

What can target kidney fibrosis?

IA Leaf, JS Duffield - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Fibrosis, a characteristic of all chronic kidney diseases, is now recognized to be an
independent predictor of disease progression. Deposition of pathological matrix in the walls …

Decoding myofibroblast origins in human kidney fibrosis

C Kuppe, MM Ibrahim, J Kranz, X Zhang, S Ziegler… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Kidney fibrosis is the hallmark of chronic kidney disease progression; however, at present
no antifibrotic therapies exist,–. The origin, functional heterogeneity and regulation of scar …

Understanding the mechanisms of kidney fibrosis

D Zhou, Y Liu - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2016 - nature.com
The year 2015 has seen great progress in the renal fibrosis field, as key studies began to
build a consensus on the importance of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, cell cycle …

[HTML][HTML] Endocycle-related tubular cell hypertrophy and progenitor proliferation recover renal function after acute kidney injury

E Lazzeri, ML Angelotti, A Peired, C Conte… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is considered largely reversible based on the capacity of surviving
tubular cells to dedifferentiate and replace lost cells via cell division. Here we show by …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular and molecular pathways of renal repair after acute kidney injury

S Kumar - Kidney International, 2018 - Elsevier
The acutely injured mammalian kidney mounts a cellular and molecular response to repair
itself. However, in patchy regions such intrinsic processes are impaired and dysregulated …