[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Unified mouse and human kidney single-cell expression atlas reveal commonalities and differences in disease states

J Zhou, A Abedini, MS Balzer, R Shrestha… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background Mouse models have been widely used to understand kidney disease
pathomechanisms and play an important role in drug discovery. However, these models …

[PDF][PDF] Treatment effects of soluble guanylate cyclase modulation on diabetic kidney disease at single-cell resolution

MS Balzer, M Pavkovic, J Frederick, A Abedini… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the most common cause of renal failure. Therapeutics
development is hampered by our incomplete understanding of animal models on a cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Basophils beyond allergic and parasitic diseases

R Poto, S Loffredo, G Marone, A Di Salvatore… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Basophils bind IgE via FcεRI-αβγ 2, which they uniquely share only with mast cells. In doing
so, they can rapidly release mediators that are hallmark of allergic disease. This …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular pathways that drive diabetic kidney disease

S Mohandes, T Doke, H Hu, D Mukhi… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Kidney disease is a major driver of mortality among patients with diabetes and diabetic
kidney disease (DKD) is responsible for close to half of all chronic kidney disease cases …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of endoplasmic reticulum stress-related biomarkers of diabetes nephropathy based on bioinformatics and machine learning

J Su, J Peng, L Wang, H Xie, Y Zhou, H Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Backgrounds Diabetes nephropathy (DN) is a growing public health concern worldwide.
Renal dysfunction impairment in DN is intimately linked to ER stress and its related signaling …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …