PodoSighter: a cloud-based tool for label-free podocyte detection in kidney whole-slide images

D Govind, JU Becker, J Miecznikowski… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background Podocyte depletion precedes progressive glomerular damage in several kidney
diseases. However, the current standard of visual detection and quantification of podocyte …

NAD deficiency contributes to progressive kidney disease in HIV-nephropathy mice

T Yoshida, K Myakala, BA Jones… - American Journal …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
HIV disease remains prevalent in the United States and is particularly prevalent in sub-
Saharan Africa. Recent investigations revealed that mitochondrial dysfunction in kidney …

Variant APOL1 protein in plasma associates with larger particles in humans and mouse models of kidney injury

M Andrews, T Yoshida, CM Henderson, H Pflaum… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Genetic variants in apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1), a protein that protects humans
from infection with African trypanosomes, explain a substantial proportion of the excess risk …

Biologically informed clot histomics are predictive of acute ischemic stroke etiology

TR Patel, BA Santo, TJD Jenkins, M Waqas… - Stroke: Vascular and …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Toward development of diagnostics for cryptogenic stroke, we hypothesize that
histomic features of stroke blood clots retrieved by mechanical thrombectomy could be used …

[HTML][HTML] APOL1 kidney risk variants in glomerular diseases modeled in transgenic mice

T Yoshida, KZ Latt, BA Santo, S Shrivastav, Y Zhao… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
APOL1 high-risk variants partially explain the high kidney disease prevalence among
African ancestry individuals. Many mechanisms have been reported in cell culture models …

PKR activation-induced mitochondrial dysfunction in HIV-transgenic mice with nephropathy

T Yoshida, KZ Latt, AZ Rosenberg, BA Santo… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
HIV disease remains prevalent in the USA and chronic kidney disease remains a major
cause of morbidity in HIV-1-positive patients. Host double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated …

Single-Cell Transcriptional Signatures of Glomerular Disease in Transgenic Mice with APOL1 Variants

T Yoshida, KZ Latt, BA Santo, S Shrivastav… - Journal of the …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background APOL1 high-risk variants contribute to kidney disease among African-ancestry
individuals. We sought to describe cell-specific APOL1 variants-induced pathways using two …

NAD+ activates renal metabolism and protects from chronic kidney disease in a model of Alport syndrome

BA Jones, DL Gisch, K Myakala, A Sadiq, YH Cheng… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with renal metabolic disturbances, including
impaired fatty acid oxidation (FAO). Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is a small …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Radiographic Biomarkers for Acute Ischemic Stroke Management

TR Patel - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is caused when a clot formed within the circulatory system
travels to the brain to occlude one of the major arteries supplying blood to the brain tissue …