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 …

Systemic lupus erythematosus: diagnosis and clinical management

A Fava, M Petri - Journal of autoimmunity, 2019 - Elsevier
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a worldwide chronic autoimmune disease which
may affect every organ and tissue. Genetic predisposition, environmental triggers, and the …

A single-cell atlas of in vivo mammalian chromatin accessibility

DA Cusanovich, AJ Hill, D Aghamirzaie, RM Daza… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
We applied a combinatorial indexing assay, sci-ATAC-seq, to profile genome-wide
chromatin accessibility in∼ 100,000 single cells from 13 adult mouse tissues. We identify 85 …

Single-cell transcriptomics of the mouse kidney reveals potential cellular targets of kidney disease

J Park, R Shrestha, C Qiu, A Kondo, S Huang, M Werth… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Our understanding of kidney disease pathogenesis is limited by an incomplete molecular
characterization of the cell types responsible for the organ's multiple homeostatic functions …

Single-cell transcriptome analysis of human skin identifies novel fibroblast subpopulation and enrichment of immune subsets in atopic dermatitis

H He, H Suryawanshi, P Morozov… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a prevalent inflammatory skin disease with a complex
pathogenesis involving immune cell and epidermal abnormalities. Despite whole tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis and refinement of human PSC-derived kidney organoid differentiation with single-cell transcriptomics

H Wu, K Uchimura, EL Donnelly, Y Kirita, SA Morris… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Kidney organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells have great utility for
investigating organogenesis and disease mechanisms and, potentially, as a replacement …

Spatial heterogeneity in the mammalian liver

S Ben-Moshe, S Itzkovitz - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Hepatocytes operate in highly structured repeating anatomical units termed liver lobules.
Blood flow along the lobule radial axis creates gradients of oxygen, nutrients and hormones …

Single-cell RNA sequencing for the study of development, physiology and disease

SS Potter - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2018 - nature.com
An ongoing technological revolution is continually improving our ability to carry out very high-
resolution studies of gene expression patterns. Current technology enables the global gene …

Functionally distinct disease-associated fibroblast subsets in rheumatoid arthritis

F Mizoguchi, K Slowikowski, K Wei, JL Marshall… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Fibroblasts regulate tissue homeostasis, coordinate inflammatory responses, and mediate
tissue damage. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), synovial fibroblasts maintain chronic …

Tubular cell and keratinocyte single-cell transcriptomics applied to lupus nephritis reveal type I IFN and fibrosis relevant pathways

E Der, H Suryawanshi, P Morozov, M Kustagi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The molecular and cellular processes that lead to renal damage and to the heterogeneity of
lupus nephritis (LN) are not well understood. We applied single-cell RNA sequencing …