Background: Autophagy, as an indispensable metabolism, plays pivotal roles in maintaining
intracellular homeostasis. Nutritional stress, amino acid deficiency, oxidative stress, and …

Following acute kidney injury (AKI), renal tubular cells may stimulate fibroblasts in a
paracrine fashion leading to interstitial fibrosis, but the paracrine factors and their regulation …

Background: Autophagy is an essential cellular process involving the self-degradation and
recycling of organelles, proteins, and cellular debris. Recent research has shown that …

Background Doxorubicin (DOX)-induced neurotoxicity is widely reported in previous studies.
Oxidative stress has been validated as a critical event involved in DOX-induced …

Excessive renal TGF-β production and pro-fibrotic miRNAs are important drivers of kidney
fibrosis that lack any efficient treatment. Dysfunctional autophagy might play an important …

The pathogenesis of immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is closely related to immunity
and inflammation. The clinical process of IgAN varies greatly, making the assessment of …

The increasing number of patients on the kidney transplant waiting list underlines the need
to expand the donor pool and improve kidney graft utilization. By protecting kidney grafts …

Sepsis is a potentially fatal complication of burns and trauma that can cause acute kidney
injury (AKI) with substantial morbidity and mortality, but this disease is poorly understood …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have gained much attention due to their superb properties, which
make them promising options for the reinforcing composite materials with desirable …

In Ctenopharyngodon idellus, the ameliorative influence of rutin-containing leaf extract of B
oerhavia diffusa was assessed against chronic exposure to hexavalent chromium. For this …