[HTML][HTML] Glomerulonephritis: immunopathogenesis and immunotherapy

HJ Anders, AR Kitching, N Leung… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract 'Glomerulonephritis'(GN) is a term used to describe a group of heterogeneous
immune-mediated disorders characterized by inflammation of the filtration units of the kidney …

Podocyte-parietal epithelial cell interdependence in glomerular development and disease

R Bronstein, J Pace, Y Gowthaman… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Podocytes and parietal epithelial cells (PECs) are among the few principal cell types within
the kidney glomerulus, the former serving as a crucial constituent of the kidney filtration …

[HTML][HTML] No NLRP3 inflammasome activity in kidney epithelial cells, not even when the NLRP3-A350V Muckle-Wells variant is expressed in podocytes of diabetic mice

SC Kunte, JA Marschner, M Klaus, T Honda… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The NLRP3 inflammasome integrates several danger signals into the activation
of innate immunity and inflammation by secreting IL-1β and IL-18. Most published data …

[HTML][HTML] Single cell landscape of parietal epithelial cells in healthy and diseased states

W Liu, G Huang, B Liu, H Hu, J Geng, H Rui, C Gao… - Kidney International, 2023 - Elsevier
The biology and diversity of glomerular parietal epithelial cells (PECs) are important for
understanding podocyte regeneration and crescent formation. Although protein markers …

Role of biophysics and mechanobiology in podocyte physiology

J Haydak, EU Azeloglu - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2024 - nature.com
Podocytes form the backbone of the glomerular filtration barrier and are exposed to various
mechanical forces throughout the lifetime of an individual. The highly dynamic …

A Novel High-Content Screening Assay Identified Belinostat as Protective in a FSGS—Like Zebrafish Model

M Schindler, F Siegerist, T Lange, S Simm… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background FSGS affects the complex three-dimensional morphology of podocytes,
resulting in loss of filtration barrier function and the development of sclerotic lesions …

Collapsing glomerulopathy: unraveling varied pathogeneses

KD Smith, S Akilesh - Current Opinion in Nephrology and …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Since its original description in the 1980s, collapsing glomerulopathy has been the subject
of intense study, and these efforts have uncovered numerous insights into potential disease …

[HTML][HTML] From multitude to singularity: An up-to-date overview of scRNA-seq data generation and analysis

G Carangelo, A Magi, R Semeraro - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is today a common and powerful technology in
biomedical research settings, allowing to profile the whole transcriptome of a very large …

LncRNA SNHG16 regulates RAS and NF-κB pathway-mediated NLRP3 inflammasome activation to aggravate diabetes nephropathy through stabilizing TLR4

Y Liu, M Zhang, H Zhong, N Xie, Y Wang, S Ding… - Acta Diabetologica, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Aims LncRNA SNHG16 and Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) participate in diabetes
nephropathy. This study investigated whether SNHG16 regulates diabetic renal injury (DRI) …

Novel pharmacological interventions for diabetic kidney disease

SK Tan, JA Pinzon-Cortes… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Renal specific outcome trials have become more popular and are increasing the available
armamentarium to diminish the progression of renal decline in patients at greater risk of end …