Targeting the progression of chronic kidney disease

M Ruiz-Ortega, S Rayego-Mateos, S Lamas… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a devastating condition that is reaching epidemic levels
owing to the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and obesity, as well …

Fibrosis in chronic kidney disease: pathogenesis and consequences

S Panizo, L Martínez-Arias, C Alonso-Montes… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fibrosis is a process characterized by an excessive accumulation of the extracellular matrix
as a response to different types of tissue injuries, which leads to organ dysfunction. The …

Non-coding RNAs in development and disease: background, mechanisms, and therapeutic approaches

J Beermann, MT Piccoli, J Viereck… - Physiological …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Advances in RNA-sequencing techniques have led to the discovery of thousands of non-
coding transcripts with unknown function. There are several types of non-coding linear …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of diabetic kidney disease: current and future

T Yamazaki, I Mimura, T Tanaka… - … & metabolism journal, 2021 - synapse.koreamed.org
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the major cause of end-stage kidney disease. However,
only renin-angiotensin system inhibitor with multidisciplinary treatments is effective for DKD …

TGF-β: the master regulator of fibrosis

X Meng, DJ Nikolic-Paterson, HY Lan - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2016 - nature.com
Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is the primary factor that drives fibrosis in most, if not
all, forms of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Inhibition of the TGF-β isoform, TGF-β1, or its …

[HTML][HTML] Smad3 signatures in renal inflammation and fibrosis

W Wu, X Wang, X Yu, HY Lan - International journal of biological …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Renal inflammation and fibrosis are key pathological features of acute kidney injury (AKI)
and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Smad3 is a critical mediator of TGF-β signaling and …

TGF-beta as a master regulator of diabetic nephropathy

L Wang, HL Wang, TT Liu, HY Lan - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the most common complications in diabetes mellitus
and the leading cause of end-stage renal disease. TGF-β is a pleiotropic cytokine and has …

[HTML][HTML] Central role of dysregulation of TGF-β/Smad in CKD progression and potential targets of its treatment

L Chen, T Yang, DW Lu, H Zhao, YL Feng… - Biomedicine & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has emerged as a major cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. Interstitial fibrosis, glomerulosclerosis and inflammation play the central role in …

TGF-β/Smad signaling in renal fibrosis

XM Meng, PMK Tang, J Li, HY Lan - Frontiers in physiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
TGF-β (transforming growth factor-β) is well identified as a central mediator in renal fibrosis.
TGF-β initiates canonical and non-canonical pathways to exert multiple biological effects …

Mechanisms of diabetic complications

JM Forbes, ME Cooper - Physiological reviews, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
It is increasingly apparent that not only is a cure for the current worldwide diabetes epidemic
required, but also for its major complications, affecting both small and large blood vessels …