Defective fatty acid oxidation in renal tubular epithelial cells has a key role in kidney fibrosis development

HM Kang, SH Ahn, P Choi, YA Ko, SH Han, F Chinga… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Renal fibrosis is the histological manifestation of a progressive, usually irreversible process
causing chronic and end-stage kidney disease. We performed genome-wide transcriptome …

Alteration of fatty acid oxidation in tubular epithelial cells: from acute kidney injury to renal fibrogenesis

N Simon, A Hertig - Frontiers in medicine, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Renal proximal tubular cells are the most energy-demanding cells in the body. The ATP that
they use is mostly produced in their mitochondrial and peroxisomal compartments, by the …

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 …

Decoding myofibroblast origins in human kidney fibrosis

C Kuppe, MM Ibrahim, J Kranz, X Zhang, S Ziegler… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Kidney fibrosis is the hallmark of chronic kidney disease progression; however, at present
no antifibrotic therapies exist,–. The origin, functional heterogeneity and regulation of scar …

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition induces cell cycle arrest and parenchymal damage in renal fibrosis

S Lovisa, VS LeBleu, B Tampe, H Sugimoto… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Kidney fibrosis is marked by an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of tubular
epithelial cells (TECs). Here we find that, during renal fibrosis, TECs acquire a partial EMT …

Metabolic reprogramming and renal fibrosis

X Zhu, L Jiang, M Long, X Wei, Y Hou, Y Du - Frontiers in medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
There are several causes of chronic kidney disease, but all of these patients have renal
fibrosis. Although many studies have examined the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis, there are …

Single-cell analysis highlights differences in druggable pathways underlying adaptive or fibrotic kidney regeneration

MS Balzer, T Doke, YW Yang, DL Aldridge… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The kidney has tremendous capacity to repair after acute injury, however, pathways guiding
adaptive and fibrotic repair are poorly understood. We developed a model of adaptive and …

Snail1-induced partial epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition drives renal fibrosis in mice and can be targeted to reverse established disease

MT Grande, B Sánchez-Laorden, C López-Blau… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Progressive kidney fibrosis contributes greatly to end-stage renal failure, and no specific
treatment is available to preserve organ function. During renal fibrosis, myofibroblasts …

What can target kidney fibrosis?

IA Leaf, JS Duffield - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Fibrosis, a characteristic of all chronic kidney diseases, is now recognized to be an
independent predictor of disease progression. Deposition of pathological matrix in the walls …

Single-cell multi-omic and spatial profiling of human kidneys implicates the fibrotic microenvironment in kidney disease progression

A Abedini, J Levinsohn, KA Klötzer, B Dumoulin, Z Ma… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Kidneys are intricate three-dimensional structures in the body, yet the spatial and molecular
principles of kidney health and disease remain inadequately understood. We generated …