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 …

Immunology of human fibrosis

M Bhattacharya, P Ramachandran - Nature Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Fibrosis, defined by the excess deposition of structural and matricellular proteins in the
extracellular space, underlies tissue dysfunction in multiple chronic diseases. Approved …

NAD+ precursor supplementation prevents mtRNA/RIG-I-dependent inflammation during kidney injury

T Doke, S Mukherjee, D Mukhi, P Dhillon, A Abedini… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of how global changes in cellular metabolism contribute to human kidney
disease remains incompletely understood. Here we show that nicotinamide adenine …

Single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility profiling elucidate the kidney-protective mechanism of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists

A Abedini, A Sánchez-Navaro, J Wu… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Mineralocorticoid excess commonly leads to hypertension (HTN) and kidney disease. In our
study, we used single-cell expression and chromatin accessibility tools to characterize the …

Mechanisms of kidney fibrosis and routes towards therapy

N Yamashita, R Kramann - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Kidney fibrosis is the final common pathway of virtually all chronic kidney diseases (CKDs)
and is therefore considered to be a promising therapeutic target for these conditions …

The role of cytokines in neutrophil development, tissue homing, function and plasticity in health and disease

M Tsioumpekou, D Krijgsman, JHW Leusen… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Neutrophils are crucial innate immune cells and comprise 50–70% of the white blood cell
population under homeostatic conditions. Upon infection and in cancer, blood neutrophil …

WNT-dependent interaction between inflammatory fibroblasts and FOLR2+ macrophages promotes fibrosis in chronic kidney disease

C Cohen, R Mhaidly, H Croizer, Y Kieffer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health problem driven by myofibroblast
accumulation, leading to interstitial fibrosis. Heterogeneity is a recently recognized …

Single-cell dissection of cellular and molecular features underlying mesenchymal stem cell therapy in ischemic acute kidney injury

W Wang, M Zhang, X Ren, Y Song, Y Xu, K Zhuang… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) exert beneficial therapeutic effects in acute kidney injury
(AKI), while the detailed repair mechanism remains unclear. Herein, we probed the …

Spatially resolved human kidney multi-omics single cell atlas highlights the key role of the fibrotic microenvironment in kidney disease progression

A Abedini, J Levinsohn, KA Klötzer, B Dumoulin, Z Ma… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Kidneys possess one of the most intricate three-dimensional cellular structures in the body,
yet the spatial and molecular principles of kidney health and disease remain inadequately …

The role of CXCR1, CXCR2, CXCR3, CXCR5, and CXCR6 ligands in molecular cancer processes and clinical aspects of acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

J Korbecki, P Kupnicka, K Barczak, M Bosiacki… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary AML is a type of leukemia with a very unfavorable prognosis. Some of the
new therapeutic targets that are being investigated by researchers worldwide are …