Rodent models of AKI-CKD transition

Y Fu, C Tang, J Cai, G Chen… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a contributing factor in the development and progression of
chronic kidney disease (CKD). Despite rapid progresses, the mechanism underlying AKI …

Pathogenesis of fibrostenosing Crohn's disease

J Li, R Mao, S Kurada, J Wang, S Lin, J Chandra… - Translational …, 2019 - Elsevier
Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory disease, which could affect any part of the
gastrointestinal tract. A severe complication of CD is fibrosis-associated strictures, which can …

Cell profiling of mouse acute kidney injury reveals conserved cellular responses to injury

Y Kirita, H Wu, K Uchimura, PC Wilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
After acute kidney injury (AKI), patients either recover or alternatively develop fibrosis and
chronic kidney disease. Interactions between injured epithelia, stroma, and inflammatory …

Bulk tissue cell type deconvolution with multi-subject single-cell expression reference

X Wang, J Park, K Susztak, NR Zhang, M Li - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of cell type composition in disease relevant tissues is an important step
towards the identification of cellular targets of disease. We present MuSiC, a method that …

Single-cell profiling of AKI in a murine model reveals novel transcriptional signatures, profibrotic phenotype, and epithelial-to-stromal crosstalk

V Rudman-Melnick, M Adam, A Potter… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background Current management of AKI, a potentially fatal disorder that can also initiate or
exacerbate CKD, is merely supportive. Therefore, deeper understanding of the molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Human SRMAtlas: a resource of targeted assays to quantify the complete human proteome

U Kusebauch, DS Campbell, EW Deutsch, CS Chu… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The ability to reliably and reproducibly measure any protein of the human proteome in any
tissue or cell type would be transformative for understanding systems-level properties as …

Injury triggers fascia fibroblast collective cell migration to drive scar formation through N-cadherin

D Jiang, S Christ, D Correa-Gallegos, P Ramesh… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Scars are more severe when the subcutaneous fascia beneath the dermis is injured upon
surgical or traumatic wounding. Here, we present a detailed analysis of fascia cell …

Comprehensive single-cell transcriptional profiling defines shared and unique epithelial injury responses during kidney fibrosis

H Li, EE Dixon, H Wu, BD Humphreys - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
The underlying cellular events driving kidney fibrogenesis and metabolic dysfunction are
incompletely understood. Here, we employed single-cell combinatorial indexing RNA …

Genetic-variation-driven gene-expression changes highlight genes with important functions for kidney disease

YA Ko, H Yi, C Qiu, S Huang, J Park, N Ledo… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a complex gene-environmental disease affecting close to
10% of the US population. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified …

Cadherin-11, Sparc-related modular calcium binding protein-2, and Pigment epithelium-derived factor are promising non-invasive biomarkers of kidney fibrosis

IM Schmidt, MR Colona, BR Kestenbaum… - Kidney international, 2021 - Elsevier
Kidney fibrosis constitutes the shared final pathway of nearly all chronic nephropathies, but
biomarkers for the non-invasive assessment of kidney fibrosis are currently not available. To …