The effect of HIF on metabolism and immunity

CT Taylor, CC Scholz - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular hypoxia occurs when the demand for sufficient molecular oxygen needed to
produce the levels of ATP required to perform physiological functions exceeds the vascular …

How many cell types are in the kidney and what do they do?

MS Balzer, T Rohacs, K Susztak - Annual review of physiology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The kidney maintains electrolyte, water, and acid-base balance, eliminates foreign and
waste compounds, regulates blood pressure, and secretes hormones. There are at least 16 …

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 …

Multi-omics integration in the age of million single-cell data

Z Miao, BD Humphreys, AP McMahon… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
An explosion in single-cell technologies has revealed a previously underappreciated
heterogeneity of cell types and novel cell-state associations with sex, disease, development …

Single cell regulatory landscape of the mouse kidney highlights cellular differentiation programs and disease targets

Z Miao, MS Balzer, Z Ma, H Liu, J Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Determining the epigenetic program that generates unique cell types in the kidney is critical
for understanding cell-type heterogeneity during tissue homeostasis and injury response …

Transcriptional control of energy metabolism by nuclear receptors

C Scholtes, V Giguère - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptional regulation of catabolic pathways is a central mechanism by which cells
respond to physiological cues to generate the energy required for anabolic pathways …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] A diabetic milieu increases ACE2 expression and cellular susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections in human kidney organoids and patient cells

E Garreta, P Prado, ML Stanifer, V Monteil, A Marco… - Cell Metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
It is not well understood why diabetic individuals are more prone to develop severe COVID-
19. To this, we here established a human kidney organoid model promoting early hallmarks …

Single-cell analysis identifies the interaction of altered renal tubules with basophils orchestrating kidney fibrosis

T Doke, A Abedini, DL Aldridge, YW Yang, J Park… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inflammation is an important component of fibrosis but immune processes that orchestrate
kidney fibrosis are not well understood. Here we apply single-cell sequencing to a mouse …

[PDF][PDF] Spatial dynamic metabolomics identifies metabolic cell fate trajectories in human kidney differentiation

G Wang, B Heijs, S Kostidis, RGJ Rietjens, M Koning… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Accumulating evidence demonstrates important roles for metabolism in cell fate
determination. However, it is a challenge to assess metabolism at a spatial resolution that …