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 …

Single-nuclear transcriptomics reveals diversity of proximal tubule cell states in a dynamic response to acute kidney injury

LMS Gerhardt, J Liu, K Koppitch… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Acute kidney injury (AKI), commonly caused by ischemia, sepsis, or nephrotoxic insult, is
associated with increased mortality and a heightened risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) …

[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 …

Lineage tracing and single-nucleus multiomics reveal novel features of adaptive and maladaptive repair after acute kidney injury

LMS Gerhardt, K Koppitch, J van Gestel… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background AKI triggers a proliferative response as part of an intrinsic cellular repair
program, which can lead to adaptive renal repair, restoring kidney structure and function, or …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially resolved transcriptomic analysis of acute kidney injury in a female murine model

EE Dixon, H Wu, Y Muto, PC Wilson… - Journal of the …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background Single-cell sequencing technologies have advanced our understanding of
kidney biology and disease, but the loss of spatial information in these datasets hinders our …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular characterization of the transition from acute to chronic kidney injury following ischemia/reperfusion

J Liu, S Kumar, E Dolzhenko, GF Alvarado, J Guo… - JCI insight, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Though an acute kidney injury (AKI) episode is associated with an increased risk of chronic
kidney disease (CKD), the mechanisms determining the transition from acute to irreversible …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin accessibility dynamics dictate renal tubular epithelial cell response to injury

X Cao, J Wang, T Zhang, Z Liu, L Liu, Y Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Renal tubular epithelial cells (TECs) can initiate an adaptive response to completely recover
from mild acute kidney injury (AKI), whereas severe injury often leads to persistence of …

Proximal tubule translational profiling during kidney fibrosis reveals proinflammatory and long noncoding RNA expression patterns with sexual dimorphism

H Wu, CF Lai, M Chang-Panesso… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background Proximal tubule injury can initiate CKD, with progression rates that are
approximately 50% faster in males versus females. The precise transcriptional changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Kidney single-cell atlas reveals myeloid heterogeneity in progression and regression of kidney disease

BR Conway, ED O'Sullivan, C Cairns… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background Little is known about the roles of myeloid cell subsets in kidney injury and in the
limited ability of the organ to repair itself. Characterizing these cells based only on surface …

[HTML][HTML] Urinary single-cell sequencing captures kidney injury and repair processes in human acute kidney injury

J Klocke, SJ Kim, CM Skopnik, C Hinze… - Kidney International, 2022 - Elsevier
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major health issue, the outcome of which depends primarily on
damage and reparative processes of tubular epithelial cells. Mechanisms underlying AKI …